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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2014, 8:50 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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
- Apr 3, 2014, 8:50 PM EDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2014, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Pike County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 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 Apr 3, 7:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 7:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1255 PM EDT THU APR 3 2014 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-042000- 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 1255 PM EDT THU APR 3 2014 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE STRONGEST STORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WHERE THUNDERSTORMS PASS REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN KENTUCKY FROM EARLY FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. ADDITIONALLY...WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ON MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. ABE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 5:23 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Floyd, Jackson, Knott and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Powell, Pulaski and 2 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 3, 11:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Lee, Magoffin and 5 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:24 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill | 60 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:30 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Lee | 4 days |
| Apr 4, 3:54 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:12 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | JKL | Estill | 33 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:07 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill, Powell | 44 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 15 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.