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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2023, 4:44 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 7, 2023, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2023, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Pike County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 10:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 Aug 7, 4:22 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 4:22 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Jackson KY 553 AM EDT Mon Aug 7 2023 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-081100- Fleming-Montgomery-Bath-Rowan-Estill-Powell-Menifee-Rockcastle- Jackson-Pulaski-Laurel-Wayne-McCreary-Whitley-Knox-Bell-Harlan- Elliott-Morgan-Johnson-Wolfe-Magoffin-Floyd-Lee-Breathitt-Knott- Owsley-Perry-Clay-Leslie-Letcher-Martin-Pike- Including the cities of Flemingsburg, Camargo, Jeffersonville, Mount Sterling, Owingsville, Morehead, Irvine, Ravenna, Clay City, Stanton, Frenchburg, Brodhead, Mount Vernon, McKee, Annville, Burnside, Somerset, London, Monticello, Stearns, Whitley City, Corbin, Williamsburg, Barbourville, Middlesboro, Pineville, Cumberland, Harlan, Sandy Hook, West Liberty, Paintsville, Campton, Salyersville, Prestonsburg, Wheelwright, Beattyville, Jackson, Hindman, Pippa Passes, Booneville, Hazard, Manchester, Hyden, Jenkins, Whitesburg, Inez, Coal Run, Elkhorn City, Pikeville, and South Williamson 553 AM EDT Mon Aug 7 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a portion of eastern Kentucky. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Thunderstorms are expected. Some storms could become severe and pose a threat for damaging wind gusts, large hail, and isolated tornadoes. Locally heavy rainfall is expected and isolated flash flooding will also be possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Thunderstorms are also possible at times from Wednesday through Sunday, especially during the afternoon and evening hours. Locally heavy rainfall will be possible Wednesday and Thursday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report any instances of severe weather today. GEOGERIAN/GEERTSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 10:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 11:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knox | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 12:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Fleming | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 1:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Whitley | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Wolfe | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher | 17 min |
| Aug 7, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Rowan | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 1:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Harlan | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Magoffin | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Knott | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and 1 more | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Johnson, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Martin | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott, Morgan | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Magoffin | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Magoffin | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Magoffin, Wolfe | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Martin | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 27 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.