Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2008, 8:07 AM EDT for Fleming 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
- Jun 16, 2008, 8:07 AM EDT (12:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2008, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Fleming County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:56 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, 0.1 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
- 413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1343 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 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 Jun 16, 6:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 5:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 500 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-171100- 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- 500 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES EASTERN KENTUCKY. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE MOUNTAIN PARKWAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY OCCURRENCES OF HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON. RAY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:49 AM EDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 749 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 KYZ044-052-161245- FLEMING-ROWAN- 749 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 ...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT FLEMING AND NORTH CENTRAL ROWAN COUNTIES THROUGH 845 AM EDT MONDAY MORNING... AT 749 AM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF FAIRVIEW...MOVING EAST AT 32 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR COWAN AROUND 810 AM EDT...NEPTON AROUND 815 AM EDT...CRAINTOWN AROUND 820 AM EDT...FLEMINGSBURG AROUND 825 AM EDT...AND DALESBURG AROUND 830 AM EDT. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT UP TO ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD. WJM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 9:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Fleming | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 25 min |
| Jun 16, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Magoffin | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Martin, Pike | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie, Perry | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Pike | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 10 min |
| Jun 16, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Pike | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Powell | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 19 min |
| Jun 16, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Knott | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Lee, Owsley | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Owsley | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 27 min |
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.