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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this freeze warning at Apr 15, 2020, 10:25 AM EDT for 28 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 16, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Apr 15, 2020, 10:25 AM EDT (14:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
All 28 counties
Bath County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:29 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 320 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
- 2137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 110 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:41 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox | 14 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:25 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Knox and 9 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:02 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Whitley | 27 hr |
Nearby
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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.