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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Jackson, KY

June 23, 20154 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2015, 3:10 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 41 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 23, 2015, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2015, 3:51 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

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

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 1456 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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 23, 1:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 1:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:06 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
306 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 2015

KYZ051-052-060-231930-
BATH-MENIFEE-ROWAN-
306 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BATH...MENIFEE...ROWAN...

AT 306 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER REYNOLDSVILLE...OR
NEAR OWINGSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OWINGSVILLE...FRENCHBURG...MARSHALL...WELLINGTON...SALT LICK...DAN...
PEASTICKS...BIG WOODS...FLAT CREEK...BOURBON FURNACE...PRESTON...
CROOKS...ODESSA...MOORE'S FERRY...RAMEY...SLATE VALLEY...PELFREY...
COGSWELL...DENNISTON AND LICK FORK.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 64 IN EASTERN KENTUCKY BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
116 AND 133.

&&

LAT...LON 3822 8370 3820 8367 3820 8366 3817 8364
      3820 8361 3814 8336 3805 8341 3804 8343
      3801 8344 3789 8350 3811 8386 3814 8388
      3815 8392 3826 8386
TIME...MOT...LOC 1906Z 296DEG 21KT 3817 8380

RAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath	24 min
Jun 23, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee, Montgomery	44 min
Jun 23, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Menifee, Powell	44 min
Jun 23, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Powell, Wolfe	45 min
Jun 23, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wolfe	46 min
Jun 23, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	34 min

Nearby

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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.