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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Jackson, KY

May 12, 2010Bath County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2010, 7:25 PM EDT for Bath County, 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
May 12, 2010, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2010, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Bath County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2010-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 274 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2010-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 10:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchJKLBath, Elliott, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan6 hr
May 12, 10:53 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLBath, Fleming, Rowan6 hr
May 12, 11:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLFleming, Rowan5 hr
May 12, 12:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLBath, Elliott, Montgomery, Rowan4 hr
May 12, 12:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBath, Elliott, Morgan, Rowan41 min
May 12, 1:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLBath, Elliott, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan3 hr
May 12, 7:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLBath3 hr

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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.