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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Jackson, KY

April 8, 2015Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2015, 4:28 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 19 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 8, 2015, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2015, 4:47 PM EDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 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 20:30 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
Apr 8, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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.

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: 487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Apr 8, 2:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 2:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 8, 7:45 AM EDT, 8 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
745 AM EDT WED APR 8 2015

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-091445-
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
745 AM EDT WED APR 8 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON AND BRING A
THREAT OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND FLASH FLOODING TO
PARTS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY...PARTICULARLY NORTH OF THE HAL ROGERS
PARKWAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FROM THURSDAY THROUGH
FRIDAY AFTERNOON...WITH A THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND A
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY INSTANCES OF HAIL...WIND
DAMAGE...OR FLOODING FROM STORMS TODAY.

GREIF

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 8, 3:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
308 PM EDT WED APR 08 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0300 PM     HAIL             MOON                    37.97N 83.05W
04/08/2015  M3.00 INCH       MORGAN             KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

TBREWER

Local storm report, Apr 8, 3:33 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
333 PM EDT WED APR 08 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0300 PM     HAIL             WARFIELD                37.84N 82.42W
04/08/2015  E0.88 INCH       MARTIN             KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

TBREWER

Local storm report, Apr 8, 3:34 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
334 PM EDT WED APR 08 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0333 PM     HAIL             WARFIELD                37.84N 82.42W
04/08/2015  E0.88 INCH       MARTIN             KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

TBREWER

Local storm report, Apr 8, 3:41 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
341 PM EDT WED APR 08 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0340 PM     HAIL             PILGRIM                 37.80N 82.42W
04/08/2015  E0.88 INCH       MARTIN             KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PEA AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL.

&&

TBREWER

Local storm report, Apr 8, 4:14 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 8, 4:25 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
425 PM EDT WED APR 08 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0355 PM     HAIL             TURKEY CREEK            37.67N 82.31W
04/08/2015  E1.00 INCH       PIKE               KY   PUBLIC

&&

RAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary, Wayne	35 min
Apr 7, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe	31 min
Apr 7, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay, Laurel, Rockcastle	60 min
Apr 7, 8:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Magoffin, Wolfe	20 min
Apr 7, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley	23 min
Apr 7, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	30 min
Apr 8, 4:25 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	3 hr
Apr 8, 5:31 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Whitley	54 hr
Apr 8, 6:03 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Lee	4 days
Apr 8, 6:03 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill	5 days
Apr 8, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	42 min
Apr 8, 1:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	34 min
Apr 8, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	25 min
Apr 8, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	47 min
Apr 8, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Morgan	40 min
Apr 8, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Morgan	50 min
Apr 8, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson, Martin	57 min
Apr 8, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	51 min
Apr 8, 3:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	43 hr
Apr 8, 6:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Rowan	5 hr
Apr 8, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Rowan	65 min
Apr 8, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott	61 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.