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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 2010, 1:57 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 48 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
- Oct 26, 2010, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2010, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bath County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Rowan County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 8:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Oct 26, 1:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Oct 26, 1:07 PM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 1:07 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 26, 9:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 910 AM EDT TUE OCT 26 2010 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-271615- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGSBURG...MOUNT STERLING... OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD...IRVINE...STANTON...FRENCHBURG... MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...SOMERSET...LONDON...MONTICELLO... WHITLEY CITY...CORBIN...WILLIAMSBURG...BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO... PINEVILLE...HARLAN...SANDY HOOK...WEST LIBERTY...PAINTSVILLE... CAMPTON...SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG...BEATTYVILLE...JACKSON... HINDMAN...BOONEVILLE...HAZARD...MANCHESTER...HYDEN...WHITESBURG... INEZ...PIKEVILLE 910 AM EDT TUE OCT 26 2010 ...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS INCREASED FOR THIS AFTERNOON... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE OUTLOOK AREA TODAY INTO THIS EVENING AS A POTENT COLD FRONT PASSES ACROSS THE REGION. SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS MORNING SUSTAINED AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH LIKELY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE WINDS WILL SWITCH TO THE NORTHWEST AND DIMINISH QUICKLY BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT. A SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK APPEARS LIKELY AS WELL ACROSS EAST KENTUCKY AS THE FRONT AND ITS SQUALL LINE ENTERS THE AREA DURING PEAK HEATING THIS AFTERNOON. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT THREAT WITH SPEEDS UP TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE LATER TODAY. ADDITIONALLY...A FEW SHORT DURATION TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE SQUALL LINE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BE VIGILANT AND CALL IN ANY REPORTS OF HIGH WINDS...WIND DAMAGE...INCLUDING BLOWN DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS...AS WELL AS FUNNEL CLOUDS AND TORNADO SITINGS. JJ/GREIF
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 26, 12:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1246 PM EDT TUE OCT 26 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1209 PM NON-TSTM WND DMG KEAVY 37.00N 84.17W
10/26/2010 LAUREL KY TRAINED SPOTTER
SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN ON HIGHWAY 363.
&&
GREIFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 44 min |
| Oct 26, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 31 min |
| Oct 26, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 32 min |
| Oct 26, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 30 min |
| Oct 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 23 min |
| Oct 26, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 32 min |
| Oct 26, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Rockcastle | 34 min |
| Oct 26, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel | 31 min |
| Oct 26, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Morgan | 27 min |
| Oct 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 29 min |
| Oct 26, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Knott, Owsley, Perry | 31 min |
| Oct 26, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 30 min |
| Oct 26, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin | 52 min |
| Oct 26, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Leslie, Perry | 33 min |
| Oct 26, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 16 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.