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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 20, 2026, 1:32 AM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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
- Feb 20, 2026, 1:32 AM EST (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2026, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Estill County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Lee County, KY, Owsley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Feb 19, 6:20 PM EST, 7 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 6:20 PM EST, 7 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 12:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 48 min |
| Feb 20, 1:40 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Johnson | 50 min |
| Feb 20, 1:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 44 min |
| Feb 20, 1:52 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 38 min |
| Feb 20, 1:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Magoffin, Owsley | 50 min |
| Feb 20, 2:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Rockcastle | 25 min |
| Feb 20, 2:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Martin | 52 min |
| Feb 20, 2:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle | 48 min |
| Feb 20, 2:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Martin, Pike | 23 min |
| Feb 20, 2:58 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Johnson, Magoffin, Wolfe | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:04 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt | 41 min |
| Feb 20, 3:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin, Pike | 33 min |
| Feb 20, 3:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Whitley | 38 min |
| Feb 20, 3:39 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Perry | 51 min |
| Feb 20, 3:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd | 27 min |
| Feb 20, 3:59 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Owsley | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:00 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:04 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 41 min |
| Feb 20, 4:21 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Whitley | 39 min |
| Feb 20, 4:26 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knott, Perry | 34 min |
| Feb 20, 5:04 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Harlan, Letcher | 26 min |
| Feb 20, 5:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 22 min |
| Feb 20, 2:28 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Lee | 26 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:34 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill | 37 hr |
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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.