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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2012, 3:25 PM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 29, 2012, 3:25 PM EST (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2012, 3:48 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clay County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 12:31 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 791 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 857 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
789
WFUS53 KJKL 292025
TORJKL
KYC051-109-125-203-292100-
/O.NEW.KJKL.TO.W.0008.120229T2025Z-120229T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
325 PM EST WED FEB 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...
SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...
NORTHERN LAUREL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
EAST CENTRAL ROCKCASTLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
* UNTIL 400 PM EST
* AT 319 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOOD CREEK LAKE...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LONDON...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EAST BERNSTADT...MERSHONS...TEMPLER...CRUISE...OAKLEY...VICTORY...
EBERLE...ATLANTA...PARROT...PEOPLES...GREENMOUNT...DEESE...
MCWHORTER...CORNELIUS...MOORES CREEK...LANGNAU...BOND...CRAWFORD...
GREEN HILL AND ANNVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3736 8384 3727 8372 3718 8372 3717 8423
3731 8424
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 263DEG 40KT 3723 8414
$$
RAY1 follow-up statement
099
WWUS53 KJKL 292048
SVSJKL
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
348 PM EST WED FEB 29 2012
KYC051-109-125-203-292058-
/O.CAN.KJKL.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120229T2100Z/
JACKSON KY-ROCKCASTLE KY-CLAY KY-LAUREL KY-
348 PM EST WED FEB 29 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN LAUREL...NORTHWESTERN CLAY...EAST
CENTRAL ROCKCASTLE AND SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR
PROPERTY...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM.
IN ADDITION...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP...AND A TORNADO
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM E.S.T.
LAT...LON 3736 8384 3727 8372 3718 8372 3717 8423
3731 8424
TIME...MOT...LOC 2048Z 263DEG 40KT 3726 8381
$$
BECKERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 11:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 29, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Estill, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell | 45 min |
| Feb 29, 12:49 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Estill, Magoffin, Menifee, Montgomery and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 29, 1:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe | 27 min |
| Feb 29, 1:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Magoffin, Morgan | 35 min |
| Feb 29, 1:46 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Magoffin, Morgan and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 29, 1:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan | 31 min |
| Feb 29, 2:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Pulaski and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 29, 2:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe | 32 min |
| Feb 29, 2:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Jackson, Lee, Magoffin, Owsley, Wolfe | 41 min |
| Feb 29, 2:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Feb 29, 2:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan | 42 min |
| Feb 29, 2:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Martin and 4 more | 37 min |
| Feb 29, 2:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 2:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne | 47 min |
| Feb 29, 3:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Martin and 1 more | 50 min |
| Feb 29, 3:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 29 min |
| Feb 29, 3:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 35 min |
| Feb 29, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 28 min |
| Feb 29, 4:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 42 min |
| Feb 29, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 35 min |
| Feb 29, 4:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie | 43 min |
| Feb 29, 4:50 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, McCreary and 2 more | 3 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.