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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2014, 9:45 PM EDT for Floyd County, Letcher County, Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 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 29, 2014, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2014, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Floyd County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Pike County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 1255 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 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 29, 9:16 PM EDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 9:16 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 4:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 415 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2014 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-302315- 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 415 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE NIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...MAINLY DURING THE EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL... THOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE NIGHT. FROM THIS...ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING COULD DEVELOP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TONIGHT. GREIF
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 29, 8:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
824 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0821 PM HAIL PONGO 37.22N 84.32W
04/29/2014 E0.75 INCH ROCKCASTLE KY EMERGENCY MNGR
EMERGENCY MANAGER RELAYED A FIRE DEPT REPORT OF PENNY
SIZE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. SPEED OF WINDS IS UNKNOWN.
&&
RAYLocal storm report, Apr 29, 8:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
825 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0821 PM HAIL PONGO 37.22N 84.32W
04/29/2014 E0.75 INCH ROCKCASTLE KY EMERGENCY MNGR
EMERGENCY MANAGER RELAYED A FIRE DEPT REPORT OF PENNY
SIZE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. SPEED OF WINDS IS UNKNOWN. NO
REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE AT THIS TIME.
&&
RAYLocal storm report, Apr 29, 8:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
829 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 PM HAIL 2 N STANTON 37.88N 83.86W
04/29/2014 E0.50 INCH POWELL KY PUBLIC
PEA TO HALF INCH HAIL REPORTED IN THE MORRIS CREEK
COURTNEY AREA.
&&
RAYLocal storm report, Apr 29, 8:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan, Letcher, Perry | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 12:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:35 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Laurel, McCreary, Powell, Pulaski and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:50 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:07 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:15 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:37 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill, Powell | 55 hr |
| Apr 30, 9:59 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill | 3 days |
| Apr 30, 11:58 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Powell | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:40 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Lee | 58 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Fleming | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Fleming | 24 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.