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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2025, 1:57 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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
- Oct 19, 2025, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2025, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 366 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 Oct 18, 4:45 PM EDT, 21 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 4:45 PM EDT, 21 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 12:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Martin | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 12:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 38 min |
| Oct 19, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Estill, Fleming, Jackson, Lee, Menifee and 4 more | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 1:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel and 2 more | 35 min |
| Oct 19, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Whitley | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Owsley, Rowan and 1 more | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 28 min |
| Oct 19, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 25 min |
| Oct 19, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan, Owsley | 29 min |
| Oct 19, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knott, Knox, Leslie and 3 more | 34 min |
| Oct 19, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin and 1 more | 24 min |
| Oct 19, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Martin, Perry | 33 min |
| Oct 19, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Harlan, Letcher, Perry | 30 min |
| Oct 19, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd, Martin, Pike | 37 min |
| Oct 19, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 28 min |
| Oct 19, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 24 min |
| Oct 19, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 16 min |
| Oct 19, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson | 46 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.