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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Jackson, KY

October 11, 2006Whitley County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 11, 2006, 5:07 PM EDT for Whitley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 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
Oct 11, 2006, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
Oct 11, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Whitley County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 11, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2006-10-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 119 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2006-10-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 11, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Magoffin24 min
Oct 11, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWolfe9 min
Oct 11, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMagoffin30 min
Oct 11, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPulaski56 min
Oct 11, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLKnox46 min
Oct 11, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMcCreary41 min
Oct 11, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMartin18 min
Oct 11, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBell34 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.