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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2023, 9:34 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 7 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 24, 2023, 9:34 PM EDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2023, 9:41 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bath County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Rowan County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 1331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1417 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:59 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 24, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 43 min |
| Jul 24, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Rowan | 27 min |
| Jul 24, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, Rowan and 1 more | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 9:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 9:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 9:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Menifee and 6 more | 51 min |
| Jul 24, 9:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 10:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt | 27 min |
| Jul 24, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Leslie and 5 more | 37 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.