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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Jackson, KY

July 29, 20235 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2023, 3:02 PM EDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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 29, 2023, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2023, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Breathitt County, KY, Knott County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 322 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: 1630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 3:03 PM EDT, 23 hours 59 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
Jul 29, 7:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe	48 min
Jul 29, 7:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe	26 min
Jul 29, 7:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Lee	46 min
Jul 29, 7:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Wolfe	34 min
Jul 29, 8:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe	30 min
Jul 29, 8:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	27 min
Jul 29, 8:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt	35 min
Jul 29, 8:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin	23 min
Jul 29, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Lee	30 min
Jul 29, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Lee	25 min
Jul 29, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee, Powell, Wolfe	33 min
Jul 29, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Owsley	28 min
Jul 29, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt	28 min
Jul 29, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Rockcastle	36 min
Jul 29, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Perry, Wolfe	34 min
Jul 29, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Jackson, Owsley	28 min
Jul 29, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin	47 min
Jul 29, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay, Jackson	32 min
Jul 29, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	40 min
Jul 29, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Leslie, Owsley, Perry	39 min
Jul 29, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Magoffin, Pike	48 min
Jul 29, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and 1 more	61 min
Jul 29, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	31 min
Jul 29, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	32 min
Jul 29, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	14 min
Jul 29, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	23 min
Jul 29, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	20 min
Jul 29, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	34 min
Jul 29, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	44 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.