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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Jackson, KY

July 30, 2024Fleming County, Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2024, 3:25 AM EDT for Fleming County, Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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
Jul 30, 2024, 3:25 AM EDT (07:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 2024, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Fleming County, KY, Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 00:00Z on 2024-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 980 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 00:00Z on 2024-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 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
980 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.3

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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 Jul 30, 2:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 3:04 AM EDT, 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 3:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLFleming41 min
Jul 30, 3:31 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBath44 min
Jul 30, 3:44 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMenifee, Montgomery46 min
Jul 30, 3:54 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLRowan51 min
Jul 30, 4:10 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLEstill, Lee, Powell65 min
Jul 30, 4:31 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMenifee44 min
Jul 30, 4:40 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLaurel, Pulaski50 min
Jul 30, 4:44 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLElliott, Morgan31 min
Jul 30, 4:57 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJohnson, Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe48 min
Jul 30, 4:59 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJackson, Rockcastle46 min
Jul 30, 5:21 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBreathitt, Clay, Floyd, Johnson, Knox, Laurel and 6 more54 min
Jul 30, 6:14 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBell, Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher and 4 more61 min
Jul 30, 9:20 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBell40 min
Jul 30, 9:25 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBell35 min
Jul 30, 2:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPulaski37 min
Jul 30, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLaurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley38 min
Jul 30, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMcCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley36 min
Jul 30, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPulaski30 min
Jul 30, 3:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJackson, Rockcastle36 min
Jul 30, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson, Laurel, Rockcastle32 min
Jul 30, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLClay34 min
Jul 30, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLWhitley30 min
Jul 30, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLClay, Leslie, Perry24 min
Jul 30, 4:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBell, Harlan38 min
Jul 30, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay, Harlan, Leslie, Perry36 min
Jul 30, 5:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPike23 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.