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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, KY

July 27, 2026Bath County, Menifee County, Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2026, 9:21 PM EDT for Bath County, Menifee County, Rowan County, 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: Jul 27, 2026, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2026, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

Counties Bath County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 1538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 Jul 27, 8:44 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 8:44 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 8:30 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 8:37 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 8:58 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 9:21 PM EDT, 0 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
Jul 27, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	23 min
Jul 27, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	32 min
Jul 27, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Powell	38 min
Jul 27, 10:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle	43 min
Jul 27, 11:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Leslie, Owsley, Rockcastle	30 min
Jul 27, 11:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	26 min
Jul 27, 11:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley	35 min
Jul 27, 11:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie	35 min
Jul 28, 12:02 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel	3 hr
Jul 28, 7:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin	42 min
Jul 28, 7:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Martin, Pike	30 min
Jul 28, 7:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd, Knott	39 min
Jul 28, 8:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Leslie	23 min
Jul 28, 8:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	32 min
Jul 28, 8:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	29 min
Jul 28, 8:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Harlan	13 min
Jul 28, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	34 min
Jul 28, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott, Morgan	23 min
Jul 28, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	22 min
Jul 28, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Johnson, Morgan	30 min
Jul 28, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee	30 min
Jul 28, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Harlan	25 min
Jul 28, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan	35 min
Jul 28, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Lee, Menifee, Powell, Wolfe	41 min
Jul 28, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Morgan	37 min
Jul 28, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wolfe	27 min
Jul 28, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd, Martin	38 min
Jul 28, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe	34 min
Jul 28, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Magoffin, Martin, Pike	41 min
Jul 28, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Lee	34 min
Jul 28, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin	32 min
Jul 28, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	46 min
Jul 28, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike	41 min
Jul 28, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Perry	36 min
Jul 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Perry	31 min
Jul 28, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	39 min
Jul 28, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Letcher	46 min
Jul 28, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Knott, Letcher, Perry	36 min
Jul 28, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Knox, Leslie	33 min
Jul 28, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	39 min
Jul 28, 4:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Harlan, Leslie	13 min
Jul 28, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Leslie	43 min
Jul 28, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	37 min
Jul 28, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Harlan	21 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.