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Lake Wind Advisory 7, NWS Jackson, KY

March 2, 201233 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this lake wind advisory at Mar 2, 2012, 4:00 AM EST for 33 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 2, 2012, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 2, 2012, 4:00 AM EST (09:00 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 2, 2012, 12:00 PM EST
Expired: Mar 2, 2012, 8:53 PM EST
In force: 9 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 09:04 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 309 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 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 Mar 2, 1:07 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 1:07 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 9:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	27 min
Mar 2, 9:18 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	42 min
Mar 2, 12:36 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan	39 min
Mar 2, 12:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan	37 min
Mar 2, 12:42 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Letcher	6 hr
Mar 2, 12:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	30 min
Mar 2, 3:24 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Lee	43 hr
Mar 2, 5:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Estill, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	37 min
Mar 2, 5:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	35 min
Mar 2, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	31 min
Mar 2, 5:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	29 min
Mar 2, 5:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley	32 min
Mar 2, 5:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning Emergency	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell and 1 more	44 min
Mar 2, 5:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning Emergency	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan, Wolfe	30 min
Mar 2, 5:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	10 min
Mar 2, 5:49 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley	26 min
Mar 2, 5:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan	37 min
Mar 2, 5:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Estill, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell and 1 more	33 min
Mar 2, 5:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	33 min
Mar 2, 6:01 PM EST	Tornado Warning Emergency	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, Rowan	25 min
Mar 2, 6:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne, Whitley	42 min
Mar 2, 6:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Menifee, Morgan, Powell and 1 more	51 min
Mar 2, 6:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning Emergency	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Whitley	39 min
Mar 2, 6:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	39 min
Mar 2, 6:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski and 3 more	52 min
Mar 2, 6:34 PM EST	Tornado Warning Emergency	JKL	Elliott, Morgan, Rowan	26 min
Mar 2, 6:34 PM EST	Tornado Warning Emergency	JKL	Elliott, Morgan, Rowan	26 min
Mar 2, 6:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning Emergency	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Morgan and 1 more	37 min
Mar 2, 6:40 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Estill, Powell, Wolfe	5 hr
Mar 2, 6:41 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Whitley	5 hr
Mar 2, 6:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	30 min
Mar 2, 6:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	27 min
Mar 2, 6:52 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Johnson, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	5 hr
Mar 2, 6:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle	51 min
Mar 2, 6:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan and 2 more	47 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.