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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2013, 4:40 PM EDT for McCreary County, Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 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 18, 2013, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2013, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties McCreary County, KY, Wayne County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 2137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 18, 3:57 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 3:57 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1151 AM EDT THU JUL 18 2013 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-191100- 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 1151 AM EDT THU JUL 18 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. SOME OF THESE MAY BECOME STRONG...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THEY MAY CONTAIN FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AS WELL AS ISOLATED OCCURRENCES OF SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD. SOME OF THESE MAY BECOME STRONG...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THEY MAY CONTAIN FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AS WELL AS ISOLATED OCCURRENCES OF SMALL HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY OCCURRENCES OF HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND. GEOGERIAN/HAL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 218 PM EDT THU JUL 18 2013 KYZ088-181845- HARLAN- 218 PM EDT THU JUL 18 2013 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTY THROUGH 245 PM EDT THURSDAY AFTERNOON... CENTRAL HARLAN. AT 218 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARLAN...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...RHEA AROUND 225 PM EDT...YANCEY AROUND 230 PM EDT...BLACKJOE AROUND 235 PM EDT... KITTS AROUND 240 PM EDT...REX AROUND 245 PM EDT... RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT TORRENTIAL RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATE OF TWO INCHES PER HOUR OR MORE...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. ABE
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 8:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 6 hr |
| Jul 17, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 45 min |
| Jul 17, 8:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 28 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.