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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2006, 3:16 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 7, 2006, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2006, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pike County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 1132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 7, 11:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 11:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 4:03 AM EDT, 11 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 403 AM EDT MON AUG 7 2006 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-081100- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-ROCKCASTLE- JACKSON-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY-WHITLEY-KNOX-BELL-HARLAN- ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-LEE-BREATHITT-KNOTT- OWSLEY-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- 403 AM EDT MON AUG 7 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ONE MORE HOT AND HUMID DAY IS ON THE WAY WITH TEMPERATURES TOPPING OUT IN THE 90 TO 95 DEGREE RANGE FOR MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. HEAT INDICES WILL RISE INTO THE 97 TO 102 DEGREE RANGE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WITH A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVERHEAD...AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY EVENING AS A COLD FRONT DROPS SOUTH ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF A MOUNT VERNON TO MIDDLESBORO LINE...AND THEN OVER THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN REPORTS OF ANY HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE. ABE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:57 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 257 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2006 KYZ108-071930- WOLFE- 257 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT WOLFE COUNTY THROUGH 330 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... AT 257 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RED RIVER GORGE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR RED RIVER GORGE AROUND 305 PM EDT AND HIGH FALLS AROUND 325 PM EDT. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. GREIF
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:00 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 300 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2006 KYZ113-071945- KNOTT- 300 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT KNOTT COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... AT 300 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EMMALENA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR WISCOAL AROUND 305 PM EDT...HINDMAN AROUND 310 PM EDT...AMBURGEY AROUND 315 PM EDT...BRINKLEY AROUND 320 PM EDT AND MALLIE AROUND 325 PM EDT. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. GREIF
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:04 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 304 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2006 KYZ112-115>117-072000- BREATHITT-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE- 304 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO AFFECT SOUTHERN BREATHITT... NORTHERN PERRY...NORTHEASTERN CLAY AND NORTHERN LESLIE COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... AT 304 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VALJEAN... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR BUCKHORN AROUND 310 PM EDT...BUCKHORN LAKE STATE RESORT PARK AROUND 315 PM EDT...GAYS CREEK AROUND 320 PM EDT... CONFLUENCE AROUND 325 PM EDT AND BARWICK AROUND 330 PM EDT. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. GREIF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Owsley | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.