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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Jackson, KY

August 25, 2023Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2023, 2:04 PM EDT for Rowan 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: Aug 25, 2023, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2023, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 3167 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 11.3

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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 Aug 25, 2:00 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:00 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 3:31 AM EDT, 10 hours 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 25, 9:21 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 9:43 AM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 9:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 9:48 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 11:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 11:31 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 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
Aug 25, 8:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Martin, Pike	35 min
Aug 25, 9:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Martin, Pike	24 min
Aug 25, 9:32 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	JKL	Bath, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill, Fleming and 24 more	10 hr
Aug 25, 9:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	45 min
Aug 25, 11:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd	25 min
Aug 25, 11:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd	44 min
Aug 25, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe	35 min
Aug 25, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	28 min
Aug 25, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	34 min
Aug 25, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wolfe	30 min
Aug 25, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	45 min
Aug 25, 2:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Menifee, Wolfe	5 hr
Aug 25, 3:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	4 hr
Aug 25, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wolfe	37 min
Aug 25, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath	26 min
Aug 25, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott	37 min
Aug 25, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Rowan	23 min
Aug 25, 3:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Rowan	4 hr
Aug 25, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	27 min
Aug 25, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath	35 min
Aug 25, 4:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	4 hr
Aug 25, 4:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	3 hr
Aug 25, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Magoffin, Morgan	36 min
Aug 25, 4:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Elliott, Morgan, Rowan	3 hr
Aug 25, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	33 min
Aug 25, 4:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath	3 hr
Aug 25, 4:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming	3 hr
Aug 25, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Menifee	46 min
Aug 25, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	44 min
Aug 25, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	47 min
Aug 25, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	2 hr
Aug 25, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Rowan	46 min
Aug 25, 5:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	3 hr
Aug 25, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Powell, Wolfe	36 min
Aug 25, 5:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath	2 hr
Aug 25, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee, Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe	26 min
Aug 25, 6:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Menifee, Morgan	111 min
Aug 25, 6:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Morgan	103 min
Aug 25, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Magoffin, Wolfe	32 min
Aug 25, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Powell	49 min
Aug 25, 6:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Menifee, Powell, Wolfe	3 hr
Aug 25, 6:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Lee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe	3 hr
Aug 25, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Jackson, Owsley	27 min
Aug 25, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Perry	23 min
Aug 25, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Perry, Pike	45 min
Aug 25, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie	36 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.