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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this frost advisory at Apr 7, 2026, 1:04 PM EDT for 15 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Apr 8, 2026, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2026, 1:04 PM EDT (17:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2026, 1:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2026, 9:37 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1:04 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | JKL | Bath, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Fleming, Floyd and 15 more | 21 hr |
Nearby
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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.