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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2013, 3:11 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2013, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Laurel County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 142 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 KYZ120-011830- PIKE- 142 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM EDT MONDAY AFTERNOON... EASTERN PIKE. AT 142 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FISHTRAP LAKE...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PIKEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...PHYLLIS AROUND 150 PM EDT...PHYLLIS AROUND 155 PM EDT...BIGGS AROUND 200 PM EDT...AND KIMPER AROUND 205 PM EDT. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE CAREFULLY. GREIF
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:08 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 308 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 KYZ079-080-084-085-011945- MCCREARY-PULASKI-WHITLEY-LAUREL- 308 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THROUGH 345 PM EDT MONDAY AFTERNOON... EASTERN MCCREARY... SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI... NORTHWESTERN WHITLEY AND SOUTHWESTERN LAUREL. AT 309 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEULAH HEIGHTS...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHITLEY CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...HONEYBEE AROUND 315 PM EDT...CUMBERLAND FALLS STATE REFUGE AROUND 320 PM EDT...AND YOUNGS CREEK AROUND 340 PM EDT. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE CAREFULLY. GREIF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 1:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Rockcastle | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill, Jackson | 112 min |
| Jul 1, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 5:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Lee, Owsley | 115 min |
| Jul 1, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Wolfe | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 5:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Lee | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Elliott, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan | 118 min |
| Jul 1, 7:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Martin, Pike | 2 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.