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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Jackson, KY

July 12, 2022Pulaski County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2022, 4:19 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 2022, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2022, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pulaski County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 941 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 12, 3:50 PM EDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 3:50 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 8:00 AM EDT, 8 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 3:41 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:11 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:18 PM EDT, 1 minute 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
Jul 12, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Lee	34 min
Jul 12, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wolfe	34 min
Jul 12, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	42 min
Jul 12, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Rowan, Wolfe	32 min
Jul 12, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	36 min
Jul 12, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt, Knott	49 min
Jul 12, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Knott, Magoffin, Perry	32 min
Jul 12, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Jackson, Owsley	43 min
Jul 12, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	40 min
Jul 12, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Martin	24 min
Jul 12, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	23 min
Jul 12, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Lee	49 min
Jul 12, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	42 min
Jul 12, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	39 min
Jul 12, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin	34 min
Jul 12, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	43 min
Jul 12, 5:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	3 hr
Jul 12, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Martin	38 min
Jul 12, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd	35 min
Jul 12, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	32 min
Jul 12, 5:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski	117 min
Jul 12, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Knox	52 min
Jul 12, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	48 min
Jul 12, 5:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Wayne	3 hr
Jul 12, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	53 min
Jul 12, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley	34 min
Jul 12, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	23 min
Jul 12, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	26 min
Jul 12, 6:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Wayne, Whitley	3 hr
Jul 12, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Whitley	34 min
Jul 12, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	47 min
Jul 12, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	28 min
Jul 12, 7:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	3 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.