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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Jackson, KY

March 6, 2022Estill County, Jackson County, Lee County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 2022, 4:08 PM EST for Estill County, Jackson County, Lee County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 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
Mar 6, 2022, 4:08 PM EST (21:08 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 2022, 4:45 PM EST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Estill County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Lee County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 289 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2022-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2022-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 346 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1051 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 3:19 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLBath, Elliott, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Rowan7 hr
Mar 6, 3:45 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJKLEstill, Jackson, Lee45 min
Mar 6, 4:06 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJKLEstill, Lee24 min
Mar 6, 4:29 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBreathitt, Lee46 min
Mar 6, 5:06 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJKLFloyd, Magoffin39 min
Mar 6, 5:37 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJKLFloyd, Martin38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.