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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, KY

October 19, 20257 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this special weather statement at Oct 19, 2025, 2:21 PM EDT for 7 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 19, 2025, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Oct 19, 2025, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

Counties Breathitt County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 309 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Oct 18, 4:45 PM EDT, 21 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 4:45 PM EDT, 21 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 18, 2:34 PM EDT, 23 hours 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Knox, Laurel	33 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, 2:42 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.