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Lake Wind Advisory 1, NWS Jackson, KY

January 17, 201233 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this lake wind advisory at Jan 17, 2012, 9:34 AM EST for 33 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 17, 2012, 9:34 AM EST (14:34 UTC)
Expired
Jan 17, 2012, 8:40 PM EST
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
All 33 counties

Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 2012-01-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2012-01-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 818 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
818 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
844 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 lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Jan 17, 7:24 AM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 7:24 AM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 9:33 AM EST, 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
933 AM EST TUE JAN 17 2012

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-181745-
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
933 AM EST TUE JAN 17 2012

...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. GUSTY
WINDS EXCEEDING 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST
STORMS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING
HOURS.

THROUGH THIS EVENING...WIND GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE...
THOUGH EXPOSED RIDGETOPS NEAR THE VA BORDER COULD EXPERIENCE GUSTS AS
HIGH AS 40 MPH.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT IN
LOCATIONS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 64 AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 75. NO SNOW
ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED FROM THIS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE EARLY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING NEAR
THE VA BORDER.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND
THURSDAY EVENING. PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE IS POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY
NIGHT EAST OF A LINE FROM MOREHEAD...THROUGH JACKSON...TO
MIDDLESBORO.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

JP/JJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 17, 12:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, Rowan and 1 more33 min
Jan 17, 1:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLEstill, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Owsley and 2 more39 min
Jan 17, 1:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLElliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan30 min
Jan 17, 1:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLEstill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Powell, Rockcastle and 1 more37 min
Jan 17, 2:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Lee, Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe23 min
Jan 17, 2:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley33 min
Jan 17, 2:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Floyd, Knott, Lee, Magoffin, Owsley29 min
Jan 17, 3:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Pike42 min
Jan 17, 3:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Magoffin, Pike35 min

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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.