Alert archive / Kentucky / Winter Storm Watches in 2012
Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this winter storm watch at Feb 17, 2012, 3:18 PM EST for Lewis County, Kentucky. It took effect at Feb 19, 2012, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2012, 3:18 PM EST (20:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 19, 2012, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2012, 3:24 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
County Lewis County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Kentucky, 2012Every winter storm watch in 2012
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.