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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Jackson, KY

May 27, 20246 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2024, 12:50 AM EDT for 6 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 55 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: May 27, 2024, 12:50 AM EDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2024, 1:45 AM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Laurel County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:52 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
May 26, 11:06 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 1289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 359 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 533 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 May 26, 11:55 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 11:55 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 11:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Jackson KY
1115 PM EDT Sun May 26 2024

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-080-085>088-104-106>120-280315-
Fleming-Montgomery-Bath-Rowan-Estill-Powell-Menifee-Rockcastle-
Jackson-Laurel-Whitley-Knox-Bell-Harlan-Elliott-Morgan-Johnson-Wolfe-
Magoffin-Floyd-Lee-Breathitt-Knott-Owsley-Perry-Clay-Leslie-Letcher-
Martin-Pike-
1115 PM EDT Sun May 26 2024

...TORNADO WATCH 327 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT MONDAY...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a portion of eastern Kentucky.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Thunderstorms are expected at times through tonight. Some of the
thunderstorms could become strong to severe, with damaging wind gusts
and a few tornadoes as the main threats. There will also be a risk
of localized flash flooding in locations where thunderstorms tend to
redevelop and persist over the same place.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Thunderstorms are possible Monday into Monday evening, Wednesday
afternoon over extreme eastern and northeastern Kentucky, and area
wide again on Saturday afternoon.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are asked to send in any reports of severe weather or
flooding through tonight.

KYZ079-083-084-280315-
Pulaski-Wayne-McCreary-
1115 PM EDT Sun May 26 2024

...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT MONDAY...
...TORNADO WATCH 327 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT MONDAY...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a portion of eastern Kentucky.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Thunderstorms are expected at times through tonight. Some of the
thunderstorms could become strong to severe, with damaging wind gusts
and a few tornadoes as the main threats. There will also be a risk
of flash flooding in locations where thunderstorms tend to redevelop
and persist over the same place.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Thunderstorms are possible Monday into Monday evening, and again on
Saturday afternoon.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are asked to send in any reports of severe weather or
flooding through tonight.

HAL/GREIF

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 11:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 11:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 11:51 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 12:08 AM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 12:13 AM EDT, 37 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jackson KY
1213 AM EDT Mon May 27 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0333 AM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     Ashcamp                 37.27N 82.43W
05/26/2024                   Pike               KY   911 Call Center

            Trees were reported to have been blown down.
            The event time is radar estimated.

&&

JP

Local storm report, May 27, 12:31 AM EDT, 19 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jackson KY
1231 AM EDT Mon May 27 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0333 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     Ashcamp                 37.27N 82.43W
05/26/2024                   Pike               KY   911 Call Center

            Corrects previous tstm wnd dmg report from
            Ashcamp. Trees were reported to have been
            blown down. The event time is radar
            estimated.

&&

JP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 1:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Menifee, Powell, Rockcastle	47 min
May 27, 1:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Rowan	36 min
May 27, 1:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary and 5 more	64 min
May 27, 1:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan	33 min
May 27, 1:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Jackson, Lee and 7 more	35 min
May 27, 2:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Owsley	36 min
May 27, 2:25 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	20 min
May 27, 2:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt, Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin and 3 more	45 min
May 27, 2:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	20 min
May 27, 2:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knott, Knox, Leslie and 3 more	47 min
May 27, 3:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd, Harlan, Letcher, Martin, Pike	51 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.