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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Jackson, KY

June 17, 20095 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2009, 3:58 AM EDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 47 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 17, 2009, 3:58 AM EDT (07:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2009, 4:45 AM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Clay County, KY, Knott County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Perry County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.7

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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 Jun 17, 3:15 AM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 3:15 AM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 10:09 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1009 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-180515-
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-
1009 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT. DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUND...ANY
SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS THAT TRAIN OVER AN AREA HAVE THE POTENTIAL
TO PRODUCE SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR MOST LOCATIONS...MAINLY IN THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. AN
ALREADY WET GROUND FROM RECENT RAINFALL...COMBINED WITH THE POTENTIAL
FOR SEVERAL ROUNDS OF RAIN THIS WEEK COULD PRODUCE SOME LOCALIZED
FLOODING PROBLEMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

RAY/JJ

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 10:46 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1046 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009

KYZ068-079-170315-
ROCKCASTLE-PULASKI-
1046 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT WEST CENTRAL ROCKCASTLE AND
NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTIES THROUGH 1115 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING...

AT 1046 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF
EUBANK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR HOGUE AROUND 1055 PM EDT...PULASKI AROUND
1105 PM EDT...BOBTOWN AROUND 1115 PM EDT...

RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP
TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS.

SCHOETTMER

Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:49 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1049 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009

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

0520 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 SE WHITLEY CITY       36.69N 84.43W
06/16/2009  E60 MPH          MCCREARY           KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SPOTTER ESTIMATED WINDS UP TO 60 MPH WITH MULTIPLE TREES
            UPROOTED IN THE AREA.

&&

SCHOETTMER

Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:53 PM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1053 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009

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

0622 PM     TSTM WND DMG     SSW LOW                 36.78N 83.40W
06/16/2009                   HARLAN             KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED FIVE TREES DOWN NEAR HIS HOME
            AND THE ELECTRICITY WAS OUT.

&&

SCHOETTMER

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 12:27 AM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1227 AM EDT WED JUN 17 2009

KYZ113-115>117-170500-
KNOTT-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-
1227 AM EDT WED JUN 17 2009

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN KNOTT AND PERRY AND
EAST CENTRAL CLAY AND NORTHERN LESLIE COUNTIES THROUGH 100 AM EDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING...

AT 1227 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHOAL...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR MOSLEY BEND AROUND 1235 AM EDT...AVAWAM
AROUND 1240 AM EDT...HAZARD AROUND 1245 AM EDT...DIABLOCK AROUND 1250
AM EDT...WISCOAL AROUND 1255 AM EDT...

RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE
INCH PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 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.

DUSTY

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 3:38 AM EDT, 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin	27 min
Jun 16, 11:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pulaski	3 hr
Jun 17, 12:50 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	3 hr
Jun 17, 12:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Pike	3 hr
Jun 17, 2:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	4 hr
Jun 17, 9:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knott, Letcher, Pike	4 hr
Jun 17, 11:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike	4 hr
Jun 17, 12:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 17 more	8 hr
Jun 17, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	49 min
Jun 17, 2:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	35 min
Jun 17, 2:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	3 hr
Jun 17, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	40 min
Jun 17, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Pike	53 min
Jun 17, 2:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	JKL	Bell, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne and 1 more	6 hr
Jun 17, 2:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	33 min
Jun 17, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Letcher, Perry	47 min
Jun 17, 3:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Letcher, Pike	3 hr
Jun 17, 3:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike	3 hr
Jun 17, 3:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	32 min
Jun 17, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley	40 min
Jun 17, 3:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike	3 hr
Jun 17, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Owsley	45 min
Jun 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	65 min
Jun 17, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley	36 min
Jun 17, 4:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	47 min
Jun 17, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	51 min
Jun 17, 4:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd, Martin, Pike	3 hr
Jun 17, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	22 min
Jun 17, 5:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and 5 more	4 hr
Jun 17, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski	53 min
Jun 17, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	46 min
Jun 17, 6:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary, Whitley	40 min
Jun 17, 6:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	2 hr
Jun 17, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Whitley	14 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.