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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Jackson, KY

August 28, 2016Bell County, Clay County, Leslie County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2016, 2:28 PM EDT for Bell County, Clay County, Leslie County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 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: Aug 28, 2016, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2016, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Leslie County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 1387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 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 Aug 28, 1:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 1:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 4:09 AM EDT, 10 hours 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
409 AM EDT SUN AUG 28 2016

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-291100-
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...BROADHEAD...
MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...ANNVILLE...BURNSIDE...SOMERSET...LONDON...
MONTICELLO...STEARNS...WHITLEY CITY...CORBIN...WILLIAMSBURG...
BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO...PINEVILLE...CUMBERLAND...HARLAN...
SANDY HOOK...WEST LIBERTY...PAINSVILLE...CAMPTON...SALYERSVILLE...
PRESTONSBURG...WHEELWRIGHT...BEATTYVILLE...JACKSON...HINDMAN...
PIPPA PASSES...BOONEVILLE...HAZARD...MANCHESTER...HYDEN...
JENKINS...WHITESBURG...INEZ...COAL RUN...ELKHORN CITY...
PIKEVILLE...SOUTH WILLIAMSON
409 AM EDT SUN AUG 28 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
THEY WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY OVER SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

HAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 8:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	40 min
Aug 27, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	41 min
Aug 27, 10:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	43 min
Aug 28, 2:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Owsley	2 hr
Aug 28, 2:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Leslie	119 min
Aug 28, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	41 min
Aug 28, 2:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Letcher	113 min
Aug 28, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Leslie	48 min
Aug 28, 3:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Letcher	3 hr
Aug 28, 3:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry	2 hr
Aug 28, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay	45 min
Aug 28, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay	31 min
Aug 28, 3:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay	2 hr
Aug 28, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay	44 min
Aug 28, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	35 min
Aug 28, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rockcastle	32 min
Aug 28, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Estill, Fleming, Montgomery, Powell	47 min
Aug 28, 5:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming	2 hr
Aug 28, 5:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Powell	2 hr
Aug 28, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	40 min
Aug 28, 5:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	2 hr
Aug 28, 5:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Jackson, Rockcastle	116 min
Aug 28, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee, Powell	44 min
Aug 28, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Rowan	39 min
Aug 28, 6:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Powell, Wolfe	2 hr
Aug 28, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	33 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.