Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2009, 3:17 PM EDT for Boyd County, Carter County, Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 10, 2009, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2009, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Lawrence County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 465 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 808 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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 10, 1:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 1:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 3:39 AM EDT, 11 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 339 AM EDT FRI APR 10 2009 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ086-087-WVZ005>008-013>016-024>027-110745- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL- MASON-JACKSON WV-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY- 339 AM EDT FRI APR 10 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH EITHER STRONG WIND GUSTS OR LARGE HAIL. RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY FOR A TIME THIS EVENING. CURRENTLY NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS FORECAST. IF A SMALL REGION BECOMES FAVORED BY MORE CONTINUOUS RAIN THIS EVENING...THAN SMALL STREAM FLOODING COULD OCCUR. IF THAT THREAT INCREASES...A FLOOD WATCH COULD BE POSTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A FROST AND / OR FREEZE IS POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT UNDER CLEAR...CALM CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ066-067-075-076-083>085-WVZ009>011-017>019-110745- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-WOOD- PLEASANTS-TYLER-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE- 339 AM EDT FRI APR 10 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A FROST AND / OR FREEZE IS POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT UNDER CLEAR...CALM CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WVZ020-028>032-038>040-046-047-110745- DODDRIDGE-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-WEBSTER-UPSHUR- BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 339 AM EDT FRI APR 10 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VAZ003-004-WVZ033>037-110745- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS- 339 AM EDT FRI APR 10 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH EITHER STRONG WIND GUSTS OR LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KTB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 1:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 108 PM EDT FRI APR 10 2009 WVZ030>032-039-040-047-101815- BARBOUR-HARRISON-LEWIS-RANDOLPH-TAYLOR-UPSHUR- 108 PM EDT FRI APR 10 2009 ...A SHOWER WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL AFFECT BARBOUR...LEWIS... RANDOLPH...SOUTHEASTERN HARRISON...TAYLOR AND UPSHUR COUNTIES... AT 105 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SHOWER WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF WESTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SHOWER. THIS SHOWER WILL BE NEAR ROCK CAVE...STONEWALL JACKSON LAKE STATE PARK...AND HELVETIA AROUND 115 PM...FRENCH CREEK...ALTON... ALEXANDER...AND STONEWALL JACKSON LAKE STATE PARK AROUND 120 PM... HORNER AROUND 125 PM...TALLMANSVILLE AND AND LORENTZ AROUND 130 PM. PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. 08
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 67 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.