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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Jackson, KY

July 5, 2024Floyd County, Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT for Floyd County, 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

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The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2024, 2:31 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Floyd County, KY, Pike County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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
Jul 5, 12:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.

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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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -368 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 5, 12:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 12:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 12:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 12:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 12:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:12 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 1:16 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:43 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service JACKSON KY
143 PM EDT Fri Jul 5 2024

KYZ088-113-115-118-051815-
Perry KY-Knott KY-Harlan KY-Letcher KY-
143 PM EDT Fri Jul 5 2024

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT EASTERN HARLAN...LETCHER...
SOUTHEASTERN PERRY AND SOUTHERN KNOTT COUNTIES THROUGH 215 PM EDT...

At 142 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Garner to near Cranks. Movement was east at 40
mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Whitesburg, Letcher, Bath, Cumberland, Evarts, Fleming-Neon, Lynch,
Benham, Vicco, Blackey, Cody, Van, Dizney, Carr Creek, Colly,
Louellen, Premium, Nealy, Sergent, and Gilley.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 700 PM EDT for
southeastern Kentucky.

&&

LAT...LON 3672 8327 3732 8303 3732 8275 3729 8271
      3727 8273 3723 8269 3703 8276 3701 8279
      3701 8283 3698 8287 3690 8287 3685 8301
      3685 8307 3678 8313 3674 8314
TIME...MOT...LOC 1742Z 249DEG 33KT 3733 8292 3675 8313

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

GEERTSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 10:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	47 min
Jul 5, 10:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne	35 min
Jul 5, 10:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	38 min
Jul 5, 10:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Whitley	32 min
Jul 5, 11:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	29 min
Jul 5, 11:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Owsley and 2 more	35 min
Jul 5, 11:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	47 min
Jul 5, 11:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Owsley	38 min
Jul 5, 11:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery	36 min
Jul 5, 12:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Lee	28 min
Jul 5, 12:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Lee, Leslie, Owsley, Perry and 1 more	38 min
Jul 5, 12:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	35 min
Jul 5, 12:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	33 min
Jul 5, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie	30 min
Jul 5, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Knott, Magoffin, Morgan, Perry, Wolfe	36 min
Jul 5, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Perry	33 min
Jul 5, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin	49 min
Jul 5, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott	39 min
Jul 5, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	32 min
Jul 5, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	14 min
Jul 5, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	30 min
Jul 5, 2:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pike	45 min
Jul 5, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	28 min
Jul 5, 3:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pike	3 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.