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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, KY

June 28, 2021Bell County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2021, 6:42 PM EDT for Bell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 28, 2021, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2021, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY

County Bell County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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.

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: 78 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 27, 7:56 PM EDT, 22 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 7:56 PM EDT, 22 hours 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Leslie	34 min
Jun 28, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Owsley	36 min
Jun 28, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	23 min
Jun 28, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	46 min
Jun 28, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	36 min
Jun 28, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	38 min
Jun 28, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	37 min
Jun 28, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher	32 min
Jun 28, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	34 min
Jun 28, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	33 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.