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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2025, 5:16 PM EDT for 8 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 44 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
- Sep 22, 2025, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2025, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Estill County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Lee County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 3:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 24 min |
| Sep 22, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Fleming | 42 min |
| Sep 22, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski | 52 min |
| Sep 22, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 31 min |
| Sep 22, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill, Montgomery, Powell, Rockcastle | 24 min |
| Sep 22, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Fleming | 33 min |
| Sep 22, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery and 3 more | 42 min |
| Sep 22, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Owsley | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 15 min |
| Sep 22, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Rowan | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and 2 more | 56 min |
| Sep 22, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Menifee, Morgan and 3 more | 53 min |
| Sep 22, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Owsley | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 16 min |
| Sep 22, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Knott, Leslie, Magoffin and 2 more | 47 min |
| Sep 22, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan and 1 more | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin | 65 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.