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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this winter storm warning at Mar 23, 2018, 3:29 PM EDT for 12 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 24, 2018, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 20 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
- Mar 23, 2018, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 24, 2018, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2018, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Bath County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Pike County, KY, Rowan County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 39 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 23, 1:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 1:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 5:07 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | JKL | Bath, Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Floyd and 13 more | 38 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.