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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2008, 9:34 PM EDT for 10 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 41 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
- Jul 20, 2008, 9:34 PM EDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2008, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Breathitt County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lee County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 2018 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 Jul 20, 7:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 7:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:23 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 523 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 KYZ088-115-117-118-202215- PERRY-LESLIE-LETCHER-HARLAN- 523 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN PERRY...EAST CENTRAL LESLIE...SOUTHWESTERN LETCHER AND NORTHEASTERN HARLAN COUNTIES THROUGH 615 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING... AT 523 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR SMILAX...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 23 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR YEADDISS AROUND 535 PM EDT...BIG ROCK AROUND 540 PM EDT...SLEMP AROUND 545 PM EDT...BLUEFIELD AROUND 550 PM EDT...AND DELPHIA AROUND 555 PM EDT. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT UP TO ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN...GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD. WJM
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:34 PM EDT, 4 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 534 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 KYZ080-086-087-116-202230- LAUREL-CLAY-KNOX-BELL- 534 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 ...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN CLAY...SOUTHEASTERN LAUREL...KNOX AND NORTHEASTERN BELL COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING... AT 534 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN JACKSON SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED NEAR LESBAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 26 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR TUTTLE AROUND 540 PM EDT...GIBBS AROUND 545 PM EDT...FLETCHER AROUND 550 PM EDT...FOUNT AROUND 555 PM EDT...AND HINKLE AROUND 600 PM EDT. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT UP TO ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN...GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD. WJM
Local storm report, Jul 20, 6:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 20, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Estill, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and 2 more | 43 min |
| Jul 21, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 41 min |
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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.