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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this freeze warning at Apr 7, 2016, 3:26 PM EDT for 19 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 8, 2016, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr. 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 7, 2016, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2016, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2016, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Bath County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Lee County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 7, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 6, 8:00 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | JKL | Bath, Estill, Fleming, Jackson, Laurel, McCreary and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 8:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Whitley | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 4:25 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Johnson, Menifee, Montgomery and 3 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:12 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 7, 12:47 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knott, Knox and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:26 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 27 min |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2016Every freeze warning in 2016
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.