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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 6, 2014, 10:54 AM EDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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
- Oct 6, 2014, 10:54 AM EDT (14:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2014, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Breathitt County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 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 Oct 6, 10:15 AM EDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 10:15 AM EDT, 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Jackson, Lee, Magoffin, Owsley | 43 min |
| Oct 6, 4:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski | 46 min |
| Oct 6, 5:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel | 38 min |
| Oct 6, 10:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel | 44 min |
| Oct 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Owsley, Perry | 46 min |
| Oct 6, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill, Menifee, Powell, Wolfe | 51 min |
| Oct 6, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Estill, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell and 1 more | 47 min |
| Oct 6, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Lee, Powell, Wolfe | 52 min |
| Oct 6, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe | 58 min |
| Oct 6, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe | 57 min |
| Oct 6, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Magoffin, Morgan | 17 min |
| Oct 6, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill, Lee, Powell | 24 min |
| Oct 6, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin, Martin | 45 min |
| Oct 6, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 53 min |
| Oct 6, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 64 min |
| Oct 6, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 25 min |
| Oct 6, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle | 65 min |
| Oct 6, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Magoffin, Martin | 65 min |
| Oct 6, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Laurel | 63 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.