Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 25, 2021, 6:21 PM EST for Laurel County, Pulaski County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2021, 6:21 PM EST (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2021, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Laurel County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 6:30 PM EST | HAIL 0.25 | 4 Nnw Pulaski, KY | |
| Jan 25, 6:30 PM EST | HAIL 1 | Eubank, KY | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORT FROM FIREHOUSE. |
| Jan 25, 6:49 PM EST | HAIL 0.5 | 3 Wsw Mount Vernon, KY | REPORT MADE VIA TWITTER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
659
WUUS53 KJKL 252321
SVRJKL
KYC125-199-203-252345-
/O.NEW.KJKL.SV.W.0001.210125T2321Z-210125T2345Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service JACKSON KY
621 PM EST Mon Jan 25 2021
The National Weather Service in JACKSON KY has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Laurel County in south central Kentucky...
Northern Pulaski County in south central Kentucky...
Central Rockcastle County in south central Kentucky...
* Until 645 PM EST.
* At 620 PM EST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Stab, or 11
miles northwest of Somerset, moving east at 80 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Mount Vernon, Science Hill, Cains Store, Donaro, Bandy, Woodstock,
Horse Lick, Spiro, Wabp, Hansford, Dabney and Renfro Valley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3731 8461 3734 8452 3733 8451 3735 8450
3742 8423 3722 8404 3708 8488 3712 8489
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 251DEG 70KT 3718 8477
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
KAS1 follow-up statement
839
WWUS53 KJKL 252344
SVSJKL
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service JACKSON KY
644 PM EST Mon Jan 25 2021
KYC125-199-203-252353-
/O.EXP.KJKL.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-210125T2345Z/
Laurel KY-Pulaski KY-Rockcastle KY-
644 PM EST Mon Jan 25 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN LAUREL...NORTHERN
PULASKI AND CENTRAL ROCKCASTLE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM EST...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
LAT...LON 3731 8461 3734 8452 3733 8451 3735 8450
3742 8423 3722 8404 3708 8488 3712 8489
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 251DEG 70KT 3732 8427
$$
KASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2:54 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Estill, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill, Lee, Menifee, Powell | 31 min |
| Jan 25, 3:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Rockcastle | 29 min |
| Jan 25, 3:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Lee, Magoffin, Owsley and 1 more | 30 min |
| Jan 25, 3:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Wayne | 24 min |
| Jan 25, 4:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Perry, Pike | 43 min |
| Jan 25, 4:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Leslie, McCreary, Whitley | 41 min |
| Jan 25, 4:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Letcher | 42 min |
| Jan 25, 6:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski | 35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.