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Ice Storm Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this ice storm warning at Jan 25, 2013, 7:50 AM EST for 14 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2013, 7:50 AM EST (12:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2013, 3:26 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:50 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 377 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
- 1643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this ice storm 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 ice storm warning went out at Jan 25, 7:31 AM EST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 7:31 AM EST, 19 minutes before
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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.