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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY

July 4, 2016Floyd County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2016, 6:34 PM EDT for Floyd 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: Jul 4, 2016, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

County Floyd County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 4, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

502 
WFUS53 KJKL 042234
TORJKL
KYC071-042300-
/O.NEW.KJKL.TO.W.0005.160704T2234Z-160704T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
634 PM EDT MON JUL 4 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
    
* AT 634 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER PYRAMID...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  PRESTONSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EASTERN AROUND 640 PM EDT.
  MARTIN...PRINTER...ALPHORETTA...LANGLEY...HUNTER AND ARKANSAS
  AROUND 645 PM EDT. DANA...HONAKER AND BLUE MOON AROUND 650 PM EDT. 

THIS INCLUDES KENTUCKY HIGHWAY 80 IN FLOYD COUNTY BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 5 AND 10.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3748 8267 3753 8289 3754 8288 3755 8289
      3757 8290 3759 8266
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 274DEG 33KT 3755 8288 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN

$$

HAL

1 follow-up statement

931 
WWUS53 KJKL 042256
SVSJKL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
656 PM EDT MON JUL 4 2016

KYC071-042306-
/O.EXP.KJKL.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-160704T2300Z/
FLOYD KY-
656 PM EDT MON JUL 4 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM
EDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3748 8267 3753 8289 3754 8288 3755 8289
      3757 8290 3759 8266
TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 274DEG 33KT 3755 8288 

$$

GEOGERIAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 3:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	29 hr
Jul 4, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	39 min
Jul 4, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin	33 min
Jul 4, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Rowan	43 min
Jul 4, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott, Morgan	46 min
Jul 4, 3:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Elliott, Menifee, Morgan	2 hr
Jul 4, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne	54 min
Jul 4, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	29 min
Jul 4, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee, Owsley and 1 more	29 min
Jul 4, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	43 min
Jul 4, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	34 min
Jul 4, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry	29 min
Jul 4, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay, Knox, McCreary, Whitley	34 min
Jul 4, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Perry	27 min
Jul 4, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Perry	34 min
Jul 4, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	54 min
Jul 4, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	50 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.