Alert archive / Kentucky / Frost Advisories in 2008
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this frost advisory at Apr 29, 2008, 2:59 PM EDT for 33 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 30, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2008, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 30, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
All 33 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Apr 28, 7:50 PM EDT, 19 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 7:50 PM EDT, 19 hours 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 3:56 PM EDT, 23 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 356 PM EDT MON APR 28 2008 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-291100- 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- 356 PM EDT MON APR 28 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH A LINE OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN KENTUCKY EARLY THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE MORE INTENSE SHOWERS AND ANY THUNDERSTORM WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL EARLY THIS EVENING. THE GREATER THREAT OF SMALL HAIL PRODUCING STORMS WILL EXIST ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM SANDY HOOK TO WILLIAMSBURG. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. PATCHY FROST WILL LIKELY DEVELOP LATE TUESDAY NIGHT IN VALLEY LOCATIONS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT HAIL OF ANY SIZE THROUGH THIS EVENING. GEOGERIAN
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.