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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Jackson, KY

July 19, 2015Bath County, Menifee County, Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2015, 5:07 PM EDT for Bath County, Menifee County, Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 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 19, 2015, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2015, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bath County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 Jul 19, 3:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 3:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 4:25 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 4:41 PM EDT, 26 minutes 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 18, 8:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	3 hr
Jul 18, 8:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	3 hr
Jul 19, 12:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Elliott	6 hr
Jul 19, 1:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Johnson	6 hr
Jul 19, 1:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	41 hr
Jul 19, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott	35 min
Jul 19, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	64 min
Jul 19, 5:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Rowan	4 hr
Jul 19, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	57 min
Jul 19, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Morgan, Rowan	39 min
Jul 19, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Leslie, Perry	50 min
Jul 19, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Magoffin	43 min
Jul 19, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Martin	23 min
Jul 19, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Martin	49 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.