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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2009, 4:32 PM EDT for Bell County, Clay County, Knox County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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
- May 28, 2009, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2009, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Knox County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 May 28, 3:40 PM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:40 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 28, 2:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 255 PM EDT THU MAY 28 2009 KYZ119-120-281915- MARTIN-PIKE- 255 PM EDT THU MAY 28 2009 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN MARTIN AND NORTH CENTRAL PIKE COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM EDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON... AT 253 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM OPPY TO HARDY TO KIMPER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR EAST CENTRAL PIKE COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF BELFRY AND SOUTH WILLIAMSON BY 255 PM EDT. TUG FORK RIVER AND WEST VIRGINIA STATE LINE BY 300 PM EDT. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. JP
Special weather statement, May 28, 2:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 255 PM EDT THU MAY 28 2009 KYZ120-281930- PIKE- 255 PM EDT THU MAY 28 2009 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT EAST CENTRAL PIKE COUNTY THROUGH 330 PM EDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON... AT 254 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COLEMAN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR ARGO AROUND 305 PM EDT...WOODMAN AROUND 310 PM 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. RICHEY
Local storm report, May 28, 2:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
257 PM EDT THU MAY 28 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0252 PM HAIL DEHART 37.96N 83.34W
05/28/2009 E1.00 INCH MORGAN KY LAW ENFORCEMENT
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JCARICOLocal storm report, May 28, 3:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, Rowan | 45 min |
| May 28, 2:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Menifee | 26 min |
| May 28, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan | 41 min |
| May 28, 3:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott, Morgan | 27 min |
| May 28, 4:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Leslie | 51 min |
| May 28, 5:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 52 min |
| May 28, 6:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, Whitley | 65 min |
| May 28, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 19 min |
| May 28, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 25 min |
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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.