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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Jackson, KY

July 28, 20084 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2008, 2:18 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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 28, 2008, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2008, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Breathitt County, KY, Lee County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 315 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 28, 2:00 PM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:00 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 10:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1030 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2008

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-291730-
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-
1030 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THERE WILL BE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY.

IN ADDITION...HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ON TUESDAY. HEAT
INDICES COULD REACH FROM THE MID 90S TO AROUND 100 DEGREES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

AR/GREIF

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 1:20 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
120 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008

KYZ058-068-069-079-281745-
ESTILL-ROCKCASTLE-PULASKI-JACKSON-
120 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN ESTILL AND
WESTERN JACKSON AND ROCKCASTLE AND NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTIES THROUGH
145 PM EDT MONDAY AFTERNOON...

AT 120 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM BOONE TO BEE LICK TO 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF STAB...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 26 MPH.

THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR ROCKFORD AROUND 125 PM EDT...MORRILL AROUND
130 PM EDT...SHIRLEY AROUND 135 PM EDT...CLOVER BOTTOM AROUND 140 PM
EDT...COOKSBURG AROUND 145 PM EDT...

RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE
INCH PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING
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.

SCHOETTMER

Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:10 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:11 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:12 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
212 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0145 PM     HEAVY RAIN       DRIP ROCK               37.58N 83.97W
07/28/2008  M1.54 INCH       JACKSON            KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MEASURED IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES BY COCORAHS OBSERVER.

&&

JCARICO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Lee, Owsley	35 min
Jul 28, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	35 min
Jul 28, 2:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee, Owsley and 2 more	115 min
Jul 28, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, McCreary, Whitley	47 min
Jul 28, 2:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and 3 more	2 hr
Jul 28, 3:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley	2 hr
Jul 28, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie	39 min
Jul 28, 4:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Knox, McCreary, Whitley	116 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2008 Every 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.