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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2008, 3:29 PM EDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 46 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
- Aug 30, 2008, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2008, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knox County, KY, Leslie County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 342 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
- 1356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 Aug 30, 3:14 PM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:14 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1223 PM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008 KYZ079-080-083>088-104-106>120-311930- 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...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 1223 PM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. AREAS OF DENSE FOG ARE EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN RIVERS VALLEYS AND NEAR BODIES OF WATER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL BURN OFF BY 9 AM. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY AS MOIST AIR RETURNS TO THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-311930- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-ROCKCASTLE- JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGSBURG...MOUNT STERLING... OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD...IRVINE...STANTON...FRENCHBURG... MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE 1223 PM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AREAS OF DENSE FOG ARE EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN RIVERS VALLEYS AND NEAR BODIES OF WATER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL BURN OFF BY 9 AM ON SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY AS MOIST AIR RETURNS TO THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. AR/JJ
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 30, 2:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott | 43 min |
| Aug 30, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Pike | 49 min |
| Aug 30, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 48 min |
| Aug 30, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 4:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd | 85 min |
| Aug 30, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 26 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.