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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, KY

June 21, 2016Morgan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2016, 2:04 PM EDT for Morgan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2016, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2016, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY

County Morgan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1059 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 21, 2:02 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:02 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 4:43 AM EDT, 9 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:04 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
204 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

KYZ106-107-109-211830-
MORGAN-JOHNSON-MAGOFFIN-
204 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MORGAN...JOHNSON...MAGOFFIN...

AT 203 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WEST LIBERTY...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WEST LIBERTY...SALYERSVILLE...BROWNLOW...GORDON FORD...WILLIAMS...
CISCO...WHITE OAK...CROCKETT...GRAYFOX...ELNA...PERLIE...MIMA...
QUOD...EVER...RELIEF...LENOX...PLUTARCH...LIBERTY ROAD...
POMP AND FLAT FORK.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN...SOUTHEASTERN AND EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

&&

LAT...LON 3799 8302 3796 8300 3798 8297 3797 8287
      3775 8304 3788 8336 3801 8328
TIME...MOT...LOC 1803Z 281DEG 27KT 3793 8325

RAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	44 min
Jun 21, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Powell	56 min
Jun 21, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Powell	56 min
Jun 21, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	34 min
Jun 21, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Martin, Pike	46 min
Jun 21, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	26 min
Jun 21, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Lee, Owsley, Powell, Wolfe	35 min
Jun 21, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin, Pike	34 min
Jun 21, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt	27 min
Jun 21, 4:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle	3 hr
Jun 21, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay, Jackson	26 min
Jun 21, 4:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Martin, Pike	2 hr
Jun 21, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	28 min
Jun 21, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	19 min
Jun 21, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	24 min
Jun 21, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	43 min
Jun 21, 5:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Pike	3 hr
Jun 21, 5:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Jackson, Lee	2 hr
Jun 21, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	35 min
Jun 21, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Knox	46 min
Jun 21, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox	23 min
Jun 21, 7:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay	2 hr

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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.