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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2009, 2:39 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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
- Sep 8, 2009, 2:39 PM EDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2009, 3:14 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bath County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Powell County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 Sep 8, 2:39 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:39 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1145 AM EDT TUE SEP 8 2009 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-091100- 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- 1145 AM EDT TUE SEP 8 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE AS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND COULD REPEATEDLY MOVE OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS. IN ADDITION...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL LIKELY DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT THROUGH DAWN ON WEDNESDAY...DROPPING VISIBILITIES BELOW ONE QUARTER MILE AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING...AND THEN AGAIN ON MONDAY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. JP/RAY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 1:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 131 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 2009 KYZ044-050>052-081830- FLEMING-ROWAN-BATH-MONTGOMERY- 131 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 2009 ...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON... FLEMING... ROWAN... BATH AND NORTHERN MONTGOMERY. AT 131 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR OWINGSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...WYOMING AROUND 140 PM EDT...GRANGE CITY AROUND 145 PM EDT...RAMEY AROUND 200 PM EDT AND SHARKEY AROUND 205 PM EDT...AND MOREHEAD AROUND 215 PM. 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. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE CAREFULLY. RAY
Local storm report, Sep 8, 2:07 PM EDT, 32 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 |
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| Sep 7, 10:30 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 8, 1:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath | 2 hr |
| Sep 8, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath | 39 min |
| Sep 8, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Powell, Wolfe | 52 min |
| Sep 8, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Perry | 52 min |
| Sep 8, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry | 47 min |
| Sep 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Perry | 101 min |
| Sep 8, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 46 min |
| Sep 8, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.