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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Jackson, KY

June 19, 2015Johnson County, Martin County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2015, 5:28 PM EDT for Johnson County, Martin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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 19, 2015, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2015, 5:52 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Johnson County, KY, Martin County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 1016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 Jun 19, 4:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 4:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:46 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
421 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 2015

KYZ058-068-069-079-080-111-114-116-192045-
ESTILL-PULASKI-CLAY-ROCKCASTLE-JACKSON-OWSLEY-LEE-LAUREL-
421 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 2015

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ESTILL...PULASKI...
CLAY...ROCKCASTLE...JACKSON...OWSLEY...LEE...LAUREL...

AT 421 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR BEE LICK TO MUELLERSVILLE TO ROBINET TO BENGE...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...BOONEVILLE...PULASKI...BRODHEAD...SCIENCE
HILL...WANETA...HAZEL PATCH...DONARO...CRESSMONT...IDA MAY...
PARROT...JEP HILL...WELCHBURG...JOHNETTA...CHESTNUTBURG...
COLLINGSWORTH...PORTERSBURG...ROYRADER AND TRAVELLERS REST.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 75 IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 51 AND 72.

&&

LAT...LON 3719 8479 3736 8456 3734 8450 3748 8444
      3747 8438 3754 8435 3751 8427 3752 8420
      3756 8416 3756 8409 3761 8412 3763 8406
      3762 8392 3738 8354 3712 8391 3724 8423
      3725 8434 3711 8486
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 218DEG 22KT 3731 8458 3738 8431 3738 8417 3723
8393

JP

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:35 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:58 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 5:07 PM EDT, 21 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
Jun 19, 2:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	46 min
Jun 19, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	30 min
Jun 19, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Harlan	33 min
Jun 19, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	30 min
Jun 19, 2:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knox, Whitley	112 min
Jun 19, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	47 min
Jun 19, 3:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan	115 min
Jun 19, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Powell	32 min
Jun 19, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Lee	31 min
Jun 19, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	24 min
Jun 19, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee, Powell	35 min
Jun 19, 4:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Wolfe	4 hr
Jun 19, 4:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill, Fleming and 20 more	26 hr
Jun 19, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Jackson, Owsley, Rockcastle	24 min
Jun 19, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wolfe	34 min
Jun 19, 4:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Lee, Wolfe	3 hr
Jun 19, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Johnson	25 min
Jun 19, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	47 min
Jun 19, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Johnson	38 min
Jun 19, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Martin	31 min
Jun 19, 6:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan	3 hr

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.