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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Jackson, KY

August 31, 2024Fleming County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2024, 3:14 PM EDT for Fleming 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 31, 2024, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 2024, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Fleming County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2024-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 672 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2024-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 8:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMartin23 min
Aug 31, 12:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMenifee26 min
Aug 31, 12:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBath, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan46 min
Aug 31, 12:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLElliott, Magoffin, Morgan25 min
Aug 31, 1:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLWolfe28 min
Aug 31, 1:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJohnson, Magoffin31 min
Aug 31, 1:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJohnson, Martin29 min
Aug 31, 1:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJohnson26 min
Aug 31, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Johnson, Martin26 min
Aug 31, 2:00 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLFloyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan3 hr
Aug 31, 2:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBreathitt, Floyd, Martin39 min
Aug 31, 2:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJohnson32 min
Aug 31, 2:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLee, Wolfe24 min
Aug 31, 2:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLNicholas36 min
Aug 31, 2:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLWolfe44 min
Aug 31, 2:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBreathitt, Floyd, Knott, Pike50 min
Aug 31, 2:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBreathitt38 min
Aug 31, 3:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLFleming36 min
Aug 31, 3:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMontgomery, Powell36 min
Aug 31, 3:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLRowan36 min
Aug 31, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMenifee37 min
Aug 31, 3:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLOwsley34 min
Aug 31, 4:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMenifee44 min
Aug 31, 6:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLWayne30 min
Aug 31, 7:08 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLMcCreary, Pulaski, Wayne5 hr

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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.