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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2026, 3:04 PM EDT for Elliott County, Morgan County, Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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
- May 20, 2026, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Elliott County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Rowan County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Lincoln | 37 min |
| May 20, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Wayne | 36 min |
| May 20, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knox | 28 min |
| May 20, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay | 26 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.