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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2008, 4:06 PM EDT for Leslie County, Perry County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Leslie County, KY, Perry County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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, 3:11 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:11 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 5:00 AM EDT, 11 hours 6 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, 12:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1216 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 KYZ052-104-161700- ROWAN-ELLIOTT- 1216 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT CENTRAL ROWAN AND ELLIOTT COUNTIES THROUGH 100 PM EDT MONDAY AFTERNOON... AT 1216 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKEVIEW HEIGHTS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR VALE AROUND 1225 PM EDT...ELLIOTTVILLE AROUND 1230 PM EDT...STARK AROUND 1240 PM EDT...BRUIN AROUND 1245 PM EDT. THE STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ONE-HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. SBH
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 38 min |
| 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, 4:21 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.