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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2010, 3:36 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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 4, 2010, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2010, 4:08 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harlan County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Perry County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 4, 3:35 PM EDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:35 PM EDT, 1 minute before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1050 AM EDT FRI JUN 4 2010 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-051800- 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- 1050 AM EDT FRI JUN 4 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS POSSIBLE. PATCHY FOG CAN BE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN THE VALLEYS AND IN PLACES THAT SEE RAIN DURING THE REST OF THE DAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. LOOK FOR FOG TO FORM EACH MORNING THIS WEEKEND...WITH THE DENSEST FOG WHERE THE RAIN FELL THE PRECEDING AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DUSTY/GREIF
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 137 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 2010 KYZ080-086-116-117-041800- LAUREL-CLAY-LESLIE-KNOX- 137 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 2010 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THROUGH 200 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON... CENTRAL CLAY... EAST CENTRAL LAUREL... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL LESLIE AND NORTH CENTRAL KNOX. AT 137 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BUSH...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...PIGEONROOST AROUND 145 PM EDT...HIMA AROUND 150 PM EDT...GARRARD AROUND 155 PM EDT...AND BOHO AROUND 200 PM EDT. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES 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 THIS THUNDERSTORM. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD. GREIF
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:06 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 8:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Owsley | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 9:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd, Pike | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:00 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill | 83 min |
| Jun 4, 2:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | JKL | Bath, Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Floyd and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Fleming, Rowan | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 3:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Rowan | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 3:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary | 68 min |
| Jun 4, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 4:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Leslie, Owsley and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 6:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne | 2 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.