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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 25, 2021, 4:33 PM EDT for Wolfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 12 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
- Jul 25, 2021, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
County Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jul 25, 2:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service JACKSON KY
433 PM EDT Sun Jul 25 2021
KYZ106-108-252045-
Morgan-Wolfe-
433 PM EDT Sun Jul 25 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WEST CENTRAL MORGAN AND NORTH
CENTRAL WOLFE COUNTIES...
At 432 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Maytown, or 8
miles northeast of Campton, moving east at 20 mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph are possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Maytown, Toliver, Stoll, Murphyfork, Hazel Green, Valeria and Ezel.
LAT...LON 3790 8339 3778 8340 3782 8353 3784 8353
3786 8350 3787 8351 3788 8349
TIME...MOT...LOC 2032Z 274DEG 16KT 3785 8347
HALThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt | 25 min |
| Jul 25, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Lee | 20 min |
| Jul 25, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Owsley | 13 min |
| Jul 25, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay | 8 min |
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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.