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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this winter storm warning at Dec 15, 2008, 4:27 AM EST for 10 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Dec 15, 2008, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 25 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 15, 2008, 4:27 AM EST (09:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 15, 2008, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2008, 7:47 PM EST
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Bath County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1310 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 15, 12:32 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 15, 12:32 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 4:27 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | JKL | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 17 more | 34 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Kentucky, 2008Every winter storm 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.