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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2007, 5:08 PM EDT for Fleming County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 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 16, 2007, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2007, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fleming County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1293 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 16, 4:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 4:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 4:49 AM EDT, 12 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 449 AM EDT THU AUG 16 2007 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-069-085>088-104-106>120-171200- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-JACKSON-WHITLEY- KNOX-BELL-HARLAN-ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-LEE- BREATHITT-KNOTT-OWSLEY-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGSBURG...MOUNT STERLING... OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD...IRVINE...STANTON...FRENCHBURG...MCKEE... CORBIN...WILLIAMSBURG...BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO...PINEVILLE... HARLAN...SANDY HOOK...WEST LIBERTY...PAINTSVILLE...CAMPTON... SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG...BEATTYVILLE...JACKSON...HINDMAN... BOONEVILLE...HAZARD...MANCHESTER...HYDEN...WHITESBURG...INEZ... PIKEVILLE 449 AM EDT THU AUG 16 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY MORNING AND AGAIN FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. KYZ068-079-080-083-084-171200- ROCKCASTLE-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOUNT VERNON...SOMERSET...LONDON... MONTICELLO...WHITLEY CITY 449 AM EDT THU AUG 16 2007 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. DANGEROUSLY HOT WEATHER EXPECTED TODAY WITH HEAT INDICES REACHING AND EXCEEDING 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY MORNING AND AGAIN FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:50 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne | 16 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 29 min |
| Aug 16, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 23 min |
| Aug 16, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 13 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.