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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Jackson, KY

May 30, 20255 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2025, 9:43 AM EDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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 30, 2025, 9:43 AM EDT (13:43 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2025, 10:15 AM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 301 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2025-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 120 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2025-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 6:22 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMadison23 min
May 30, 7:37 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJackson, Pulaski23 min
May 30, 8:07 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJackson23 min
May 30, 8:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMontgomery31 min
May 30, 9:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLaurel, Owsley31 min
May 30, 10:16 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLClay, Knox, Leslie, Perry29 min
May 30, 10:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLKnott, Leslie, Perry30 min
May 30, 11:19 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLetcher, Pike26 min
May 30, 11:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPike30 min
May 30, 12:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPike30 min
May 30, 6:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLRowan41 min
May 30, 7:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMorgan40 min
May 30, 7:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMorgan24 min
May 30, 7:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMagoffin38 min
May 30, 7:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMorgan43 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.