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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2009, 1:21 PM EDT for 6 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 39 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 18, 2009, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2009, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Breathitt County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Knott County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Perry County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 10:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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 Jun 18, 12:50 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:50 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 12:35 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1235 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2009 KYZ044-050>052-059-060-104-106>110-113-118>120-191945- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-POWELL-MENIFEE-ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON- WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-KNOTT-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGSBURG...MOUNT STERLING... OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD...STANTON...FRENCHBURG...SANDY HOOK... WEST LIBERTY...PAINTSVILLE...CAMPTON...SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG... HINDMAN...WHITESBURG...INEZ...PIKEVILLE 1235 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WITH SEVERE WEATHER A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS ALONG WITH A POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL OR EVEN A STRAY TORNADO. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE A CONCERN FROM ANY PROLONGED PERIOD OF STORMS. DUE TO RECENT HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE AREA... ANY LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVE HEAVY RAINFALL COULD HAVE HIGH WATER PROBLEMS AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ALONG STREAMS...DITCHES AND CULVERTS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ALONG WITH PATCHY DENSE FOG. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. KYZ058-068-069-079-080-083>088-111-112-114>117-191945- ESTILL-ROCKCASTLE-JACKSON-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY-WHITLEY-KNOX- BELL-HARLAN-LEE-BREATHITT-OWSLEY-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...IRVINE...MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...SOMERSET... LONDON...MONTICELLO...WHITLEY CITY...CORBIN...WILLIAMSBURG... BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO...PINEVILLE...HARLAN...BEATTYVILLE... JACKSON...BOONEVILLE...HAZARD...MANCHESTER...HYDEN 1235 PM EDT THU JUN 18 2009 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 461 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WITH WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WIND GUSTS THE MAIN THREAT. IN ADDITION... THERE WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL OR EVEN A STRAY TORNADO. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE A CONCERN FROM ANY PROLONGED PERIOD OF STORMS. DUE TO RECENT HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE AREA... ANY LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVE HEAVY RAINFALL COULD HAVE HIGH WATER PROBLEMS AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ALONG STREAMS...DITCHES AND CULVERTS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ALONG WITH PATCHY DENSE FOG. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO CALL WITH REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER... HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND FLOODING. DUSTY/GREIF
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:33 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1133 AM EDT THU JUN 18 2009 KYZ068-079-080-083-084-181645- ROCKCASTLE-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MOUNT VERNON...SOMERSET...LONDON... MONTICELLO...WHITLEY CITY 1133 AM EDT THU JUN 18 2009 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 461 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS BETWEEN 60 AND 70 MPH IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS ROCKCASTLE...PULASKI AND WAYNE COUNTIES BETWEEN 12:15 PM AND 1 PM EDT. THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL MOVE ACROSS MCCREARY AND LAUREL COUNTIES BETWEEN 12:30 PM AND 1:30 PM EDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED AS THE STORMS MOVE CLOSER TO THE AREA. RESIDENTS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD COMPLETE ANY NECESSARY PREPARATIONS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THE STORMS APPROACH. KYZ069-181645- JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MCKEE 1133 AM EDT THU JUN 18 2009 A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS BETWEEN 60 AND 70 MPH IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS JACKSON COUNTY BETWEEN 12:15 PM AND 1 PM EDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED AS THE STORMS MOVE CLOSER TO THE AREA. RESIDENTS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD COMPLETE ANY NECESSARY PREPARATIONS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THE STORMS APPROACH. SBH
Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:11 PM EDT, 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 9:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 4 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 12 hr |
| Jun 18, 11:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Jackson, Knox, Laurel and 6 more | 113 min |
| Jun 18, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 12:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski and 2 more | 86 min |
| Jun 18, 12:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell and 1 more | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 12:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 85 min |
| Jun 18, 12:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Lee, McCreary, Owsley, Pulaski and 2 more | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 12:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Wolfe | 83 min |
| Jun 18, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Lee, Leslie and 6 more | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 1:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Owsley, Perry | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 1:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Morgan and 1 more | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Letcher, Pike | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Letcher, Perry | 20 min |
Nearby
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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.