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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Jackson, KY

August 17, 20244 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2024, 7:19 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 41 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 17, 2024, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Leslie County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 292 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: 986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 17, 6:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 6:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 3:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:27 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:30 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 17, 6:30 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:43 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:44 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:58 PM EDT, 21 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 17, 12:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	29 min
Aug 17, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath	36 min
Aug 17, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	33 min
Aug 17, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery	30 min
Aug 17, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, Rowan	29 min
Aug 17, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Morgan, Rowan	36 min
Aug 17, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	29 min
Aug 17, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee	22 min
Aug 17, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott	35 min
Aug 17, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	32 min
Aug 17, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	28 min
Aug 17, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Rowan	32 min
Aug 17, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	27 min
Aug 17, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	30 min
Aug 17, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee, Rowan	35 min
Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	30 min
Aug 17, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan, Wolfe	55 min
Aug 17, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Menifee, Powell	37 min
Aug 17, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Lee, Wolfe	39 min
Aug 17, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Jackson, Owsley, Rockcastle	47 min
Aug 17, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Johnson	37 min
Aug 17, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin	32 min
Aug 17, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Perry, Wolfe	45 min
Aug 17, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin	32 min
Aug 17, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel, Rockcastle	30 min
Aug 17, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, Letcher and 1 more	60 min
Aug 17, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Harlan	25 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.