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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Jackson, KY

July 13, 201512 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2015, 4:55 PM EDT for 12 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 65 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 13, 2015, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2015, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 13, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 13, 4:17 PM EDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 4:17 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 5:16 AM EDT, 11 hours 39 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
516 AM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-141100-
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...CAMARGO...
JEFFERSONVILLE...MOUNT STERLING...OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD...
IRVINE...RAVENNA...CLAY CITY...STANTON...FRENCHBURG...BRODHEAD...
MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...ANNVILLE...BURNSIDE...SOMERSET...LONDON...
MONTICELLO...STEARNS...WHITLEY CITY...CORBIN...WILLIAMSBURG...
BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO...PINEVILLE...CUMBERLAND...HARLAN...
SANDY HOOK...WEST LIBERTY...PAINTSVILLE...CAMPTON...
SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG...WHEELWRIGHT...BEATTYVILLE...
JACKSON...HINDMAN...PIPPA PASSES...BOONEVILLE...HAZARD...
MANCHESTER...HYDEN...JENKINS...WHITESBURG...INEZ...COAL RUN...
ELKHORN CITY...PIKEVILLE...SOUTH WILLIAMSON
516 AM EDT MON JUL 13 2015

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM NOON EDT TODAY THROUGH LATE
TUESDAY NIGHT...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A
GOOD CHANCE THAT A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH
THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE
THE MAIN THREAT...WITH ISOLATED INSTANCES OF LARGE HAIL AND
TORNADOES POSSIBLE. ADDITIONALLY...LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL
ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FROM TUESDAY THROUGH
THURSDAY...AND AGAIN FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SEVERE STORMS
WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...LARGE
HAIL...ISOLATED TORNADOES...AND FLASH FLOODING WILL ALL BE
POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

GEOGERIAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 13, 4:43 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 4:48 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 4:51 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 4:52 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 4:54 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 12:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Johnson	2 hr
Jul 13, 12:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Johnson	3 hr
Jul 13, 1:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Martin, Pike	115 min
Jul 13, 1:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	3 hr
Jul 13, 2:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	3 hr
Jul 13, 3:11 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	48 hr
Jul 13, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	36 min
Jul 13, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Magoffin	37 min
Jul 13, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Johnson, Morgan	49 min
Jul 13, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	41 min
Jul 13, 2:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	4 hr
Jul 13, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	30 min
Jul 13, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee and 5 more	30 min
Jul 13, 3:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	118 min
Jul 13, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell, Wolfe	47 min
Jul 13, 3:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Rowan	116 min
Jul 13, 3:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	3 hr
Jul 13, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin and 6 more	33 min
Jul 13, 3:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Lee and 5 more	29 min
Jul 13, 4:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	5 hr
Jul 13, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, Pike	60 min
Jul 13, 4:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Magoffin and 5 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Leslie and 5 more	36 min
Jul 13, 4:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Johnson, Knott and 8 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	38 min
Jul 13, 4:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Floyd, Knott, Knox, Laurel and 4 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	18 min
Jul 13, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	13 min
Jul 13, 5:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	3 hr
Jul 13, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski	25 min
Jul 13, 6:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Martin and 1 more	9 hr
Jul 13, 6:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	2 hr
Jul 13, 6:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	2 hr
Jul 13, 6:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming	119 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.