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Lake Wind Advisory 2, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this lake wind advisory at Feb 20, 2018, 12:13 PM EST for 9 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2018, 12:13 PM EST (17:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2018, 7:09 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Bath County, KY, Laurel County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in Kentucky, 2018Every lake wind advisory in 2018
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.