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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2025, 6:38 PM EDT for McCreary County, Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 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
- Mar 15, 2025, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2025, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties McCreary County, KY, Wayne County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 686 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 792 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Fleming | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 8:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 8:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel, Whitley | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Wayne | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | McCreary | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Whitley | 24 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.