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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Jackson, KY

June 30, 2005Menifee County, Powell County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2005, 5:54 PM EDT for Menifee County, Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2005, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2005, 6:33 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Menifee County, KY, Powell County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 30, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2005-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1111 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2005-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 5:50 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 5:50 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 1:01 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
101 PM EDT THU JUN 30 2005

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-011100-
BATH-BELL-BREATHITT-CLAY-ELLIOTT-ESTILL-FLEMING-FLOYD-HARLAN-JACKSON-
JOHNSON-KNOTT-KNOX-LAUREL-LEE-LESLIE-LETCHER-MAGOFFIN-MARTIN-
MCCREARY-MENIFEE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-OWSLEY-PERRY-PIKE-POWELL-PULASKI-
ROCKCASTLE-ROWAN-WAYNE-WHITLEY-WOLFE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARBOURVILLE...BEATTYVILLE...BOONEVILLE...
CAMPTON...FLEMINGSBURG...FRENCHBURG...HARLAN...HAZARD...HINDMAN...
HYDEN...INEZ...IRVINE...JACKSON...LONDON...MANCHESTER...MCKEE...
MIDDLESBORO...MONTICELLO...MOREHEAD...MOUNT STERLING...
MOUNT VERNON...OWINGSVILLE...PAINTSVILLE...PIKEVILLE...PINEVILLE...
PRESTONSBURG...SALYERSVILLE...SANDY HOOK...SOMERSET...STANTON...
WEST LIBERTY...WHITESBURG...WHITLEY CITY AND WILLIAMSBURG
101 PM EDT THU JUN 30 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF
THESE MAY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

ADDITIONALLY...HEAT INDICES WILL BE IN THE MID 90S FOR SOME LOCATIONS
THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY. SOME OF THESE MAY BE
SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM INDEPENDENCE DAY THROUGH
WEDNESDAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON FRIDAY.

RAY/GEOGERIAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 5:34 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
534 PM EDT THU JUN 30 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0453 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MOREHEAD                38.19N 83.44W
06/30/2005                   ROWAN              KY   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            CITY DISPATCH REPORTS TWO TREES DOWN INSIDE CITY LIMITS.

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DSTAMPER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLElliott44 min
Jun 30, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRowan14 min
Jun 30, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLElliott46 min
Jun 30, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRowan34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.