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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Jackson, KY

June 2, 2009Pulaski County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2009, 2:51 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Kentucky. It was in force for 54 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 2, 2009, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2009, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pulaski County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 1479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 2, 2:22 PM EDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:22 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 4:16 AM EDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
416 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-031100-
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-
416 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA. AN
ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY AND MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENING.

ABE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
128 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009

KYZ079-083>085-021830-
PULASKI-WAYNE-WHITLEY-MCCREARY-
128 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009

...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL PULASKI
AND EAST CENTRAL WAYNE AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WHITLEY AND NORTHERN
MCCREARY COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON...

AT 128 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR
WIBORG...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR SLOANS VALLEY AROUND 140 PM EDT...ALPINE
AROUND 145 PM EDT...PARKERS LAKE AROUND 150 PM EDT...BEULAH HEIGHTS
AROUND 205 PM EDT...HONEYBEE AROUND 225 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.

DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR
THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD.

DUSTY

Local storm report, Jun 2, 1:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
132 PM EDT TUE JUN 02 2009

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

0130 PM     HAIL             WIBORG                  36.81N 84.49W
06/02/2009  E1.00 INCH       MCCREARY           KY   EMERGENCY MNGR

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JCARICO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	51 min
Jun 2, 1:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	62 min
Jun 2, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, Whitley	55 min
Jun 2, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Whitley	53 min
Jun 2, 2:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley	74 min
Jun 2, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel	58 min
Jun 2, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley	53 min
Jun 2, 3:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	McCreary	114 min
Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Wayne, Whitley	19 min
Jun 2, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	33 min
Jun 2, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Rockcastle	55 min
Jun 2, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Harlan, Leslie	40 min
Jun 2, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley	55 min
Jun 2, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry	42 min
Jun 2, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	39 min
Jun 2, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Powell	59 min
Jun 2, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	50 min
Jun 2, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike	37 min
Jun 2, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe	40 min
Jun 2, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	52 min
Jun 2, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	51 min
Jun 2, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Rowan	47 min
Jun 2, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin, Pike	44 min
Jun 2, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Morgan, Rowan	39 min
Jun 2, 6:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pike	3 hr

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.