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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Jackson, KY

June 4, 20144 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2014, 1:35 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 55 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: Jun 4, 2014, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2014, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Martin County, KY, Pike County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 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 12:00Z, 5.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jun 4, 8:22 AM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:22 AM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 5:16 AM EDT, 8 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 12:41 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1241 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

KYZ044-052-041715-
ROWAN-FLEMING-
1241 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
THROUGH 115 PM EDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...

   ROWAN AND
   EAST CENTRAL FLEMING.

AT 1240 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR
MOREHEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...HALDEMAN...
TRIPLETT...VALE...AND WALT.

RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE
INCH PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS.

DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR
THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD.

RAY

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:00 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
100 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

KYZ107-109-110-041745-
JOHNSON-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-
100 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THROUGH 145
PM EDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...

   SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON...
   EAST CENTRAL MAGOFFIN AND
   NORTHERN FLOYD.

AT 101 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF SALYERSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...BONANZA AROUND
110 PM EDT...DENVER AROUND 115 PM EDT...COLLISTA AROUND 120 PM EDT...
CLIFF AROUND 125 PM EDT...BAYS BRANCH AROUND 130 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.

DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR
THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD.

RAY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 9:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	76 min
Jun 4, 12:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin and 8 more	15 hr
Jun 4, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	29 min
Jun 4, 4:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	59 min
Jun 4, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	29 min
Jun 4, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	30 min
Jun 4, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan	23 min
Jun 4, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	28 min
Jun 4, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee, Owsley	46 min
Jun 4, 7:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	2 hr
Jun 4, 7:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley	3 hr
Jun 4, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Perry	38 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.