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Snow Advisory 4, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this snow advisory at Dec 5, 2005, 4:24 AM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Dec 5, 2005, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 5, 2005, 4:24 AM EST (09:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 5, 2005, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2005, 10:42 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Bell County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Pike County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 300 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.