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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Jackson, KY

June 9, 20115 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2011, 4:03 PM EDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 42 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 9, 2011, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2011, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Laurel County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Whitley County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 2852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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 9, 4:00 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 4:00 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 12:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1221 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-101100-
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-
1221 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
A FEW STORMS COULD CONTAIN STRONG WINDS AND HAIL.

LOCALLY DENSE VALLEY FOG WILL OCCUR LATE TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY
DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ASSISTANCE MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ABE/HAL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 1:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
127 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

KYZ086-087-116-117-091800-
CLAY-LESLIE-KNOX-BELL-
127 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THROUGH 200
PM EDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON...

   CLAY...
   WEST CENTRAL LESLIE...
   EAST CENTRAL KNOX AND
   EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BELL.

AT 126 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LITTLETON...OR
NEAR MANCHESTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...HECTOR AROUND
135 PM EDT...GOOSE ROCK AROUND 140 PM EDT...BOTTO AROUND 145 PM
EDT...PEABODY AROUND 150 PM EDT...PLANK AROUND 155 PM EDT...

RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40
MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS.

BECKER

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
239 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

KYZ088-118-091945-
LETCHER-HARLAN-
239 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THROUGH 345
PM EDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON...

   SOUTH CENTRAL LETCHER AND
   NORTHEASTERN HARLAN.

AT 239 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FLINT...OR 8
MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITESBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...FLINT AROUND
245 PM EDT...KINGS CREEK AROUND 250 PM EDT...LINEFORK AROUND 255 PM
EDT...KINGDOM COME S.P. AROUND 300 PM EDT...DAY AROUND 305 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.

SHALLENBERGER

Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:18 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
318 PM EDT THU JUN 09 2011

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

0310 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PARMLEYSVILLE           36.68N 84.75W
06/09/2011                   WAYNE              KY   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN IN PARMLEYSVILLE. ALSO HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND
            TORRENTIAL RAIN.

&&

JCARICO

Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:22 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
322 PM EDT THU JUN 09 2011

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

0315 PM     HAIL             MIDDLESBORO             36.61N 83.72W
06/09/2011  E0.88 INCH       BELL               KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

JCARICO

Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:54 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
354 PM EDT THU JUN 09 2011

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

0349 PM     HAIL             10 S SOMERSET           36.94N 84.61W
06/09/2011  E0.75 INCH       PULASKI            KY   CO-OP OBSERVER

            DIME SIZE HAIL AT WHITE LILY.

&&

JCARICO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 12:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley	33 min
Jun 9, 12:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Owsley	61 min
Jun 9, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Wayne	26 min
Jun 9, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	25 min
Jun 9, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	47 min
Jun 9, 4:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Whitley	80 min
Jun 9, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	26 min
Jun 9, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Letcher, Pike	23 min
Jun 9, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley	21 min
Jun 9, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Morgan, Perry, Wolfe	44 min
Jun 9, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Morgan	21 min
Jun 9, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin	47 min
Jun 9, 6:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Lee	54 min
Jun 9, 7:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Martin and 1 more	54 min
Jun 9, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Magoffin	15 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.