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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2025, 4:26 PM EDT for Floyd County, 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
- Jul 9, 2025, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Floyd County, KY, Knott County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 298 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
- 677 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 10:39 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott, Magoffin | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 11:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin | 28 min |
| Jul 9, 12:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan | 118 min |
| Jul 9, 12:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 12:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 1:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knott | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knott, Pike | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 5:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Letcher | 116 min |
| Jul 9, 5:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 28 min |
| Jul 9, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott | 26 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.