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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2025, 7:11 PM EDT for Knott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 27, 2025, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2025, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Knott County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 306 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 27, 5:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 5:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Jackson KY 354 PM EDT Fri Jun 27 2025 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-281100- Fleming-Montgomery-Bath-Rowan-Estill-Powell-Menifee-Rockcastle- Jackson-Pulaski-Laurel-Wayne-McCreary-Whitley-Knox-Bell-Harlan- Elliott-Morgan-Johnson-Wolfe-Magoffin-Floyd-Lee-Breathitt-Knott- Owsley-Perry-Clay-Leslie-Letcher-Martin-Pike- 354 PM EDT Fri Jun 27 2025 ...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a portion of eastern Kentucky. .DAY ONE...Through Tonight. Scattered thunderstorms will gradually diminish after sunset. Any storm that develops will be capable of producing damaging winds, and excessive rainfall which could lead to localized flooding. Heat index values are forecast to peak in the 95 to 105 degree range for many locations through early evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Thunderstorms are possible Saturday through Tuesday, especially during the afternoon and evening hours. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. GEERTSON
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 27, 1:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Johnson | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | McCreary | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel | 25 min |
| Jun 27, 3:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Wayne | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott | 24 min |
| Jun 27, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 4:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 5:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Fleming | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Magoffin | 22 min |
| Jun 27, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Magoffin | 16 min |
| Jun 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knott | 15 min |
| Jun 27, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knott | 16 min |
| Jun 27, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knott | 16 min |
| Jun 27, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Leslie | 14 min |
| Jun 27, 6:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Knott, Magoffin | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knott | 16 min |
| Jun 27, 7:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knott | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 27 min |
| Jun 27, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Letcher | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 35 min |
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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.