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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2008, 7:51 PM EDT for Breathitt County, Knott 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 28, 2008, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2008, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Breathitt County, KY, Knott County, KY, Perry County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 28, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 505 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 28, 7:44 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 7:44 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 1:57 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 157 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-292100- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGSBURG...MOUNT STERLING... OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD...IRVINE...STANTON...FRENCHBURG... MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...SOMERSET...LONDON...MONTICELLO... WHITLEY CITY...CORBIN...WILLIAMSBURG...BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO... PINEVILLE...HARLAN...SANDY HOOK...WEST LIBERTY...PAINTSVILLE... CAMPTON...SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG...BEATTYVILLE...JACKSON... HINDMAN...BOONEVILLE...HAZARD...MANCHESTER...HYDEN...WHITESBURG... INEZ...PIKEVILLE 157 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 630 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND PENNY SIZE HAIL. IN ADDITION...ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT OCCUR TODAY AND TONIGHT COULD CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLY LEADING TO FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FROM SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP ON SUNDAY WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. GREIF/AR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:29 PM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 229 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 KYZ104-106-107-109-281915- ELLIOTT-JOHNSON-MORGAN-MAGOFFIN- 229 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ELLIOTT AND EASTERN MORGAN AND JOHNSON AND NORTHERN MAGOFFIN COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM EDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON... AT 229 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CULVER TO ELKFORK TO MALONE...MOVING EAST AT 29 MPH. THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR WILLIAMS AROUND 235 PM EDT...WONNIE AROUND 240 PM EDT...TELLA AROUND 245 PM EDT...REDBUSH AROUND 250 PM EDT... WIN AROUND 255 PM EDT... RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT TORRENTIAL RAIN...GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. SCHOETTMER
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:24 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 324 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 KYZ118-282000- LETCHER- 324 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT CENTRAL LETCHER COUNTY THROUGH 400 PM EDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON... AT 324 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KINGS CREEK... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR OVEN FORK AROUND 330 PM EDT...ERMINE AROUND 335 PM EDT...WRIGHT AROUND 340 PM EDT...PAYNE GAP AROUND 345 PM EDT...GASKILL AROUND 350 PM EDT... RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT TORRENTIAL RAIN...GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. SCHOETTMER
Local storm report, Jun 28, 7:49 PM EDT, 2 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 28, 6:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill, Lee, Powell | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee and 3 more | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 7:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Menifee, Powell | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Lee, Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Lee, Owsley, Perry, Wolfe | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Morgan, Rowan | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Knott, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Magoffin | 24 min |
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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.