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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jackson, KY

August 1, 2026Montgomery County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2026, 9:13 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 1, 2026, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2026, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Montgomery County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	37 min
Aug 1, 9:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rockcastle	25 min
Aug 1, 9:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Pulaski, Rockcastle	34 min
Aug 1, 9:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	27 min
Aug 1, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery	31 min
Aug 1, 9:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill	32 min
Aug 1, 9:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Jackson, Rockcastle	32 min
Aug 1, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	30 min
Aug 1, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill, Lee, Powell	28 min
Aug 1, 10:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	37 min
Aug 1, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell, Wolfe	32 min
Aug 1, 10:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	26 min
Aug 1, 10:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	33 min
Aug 1, 10:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Jackson	23 min
Aug 1, 11:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Jackson, Laurel, Lee, Owsley, Whitley	25 min
Aug 1, 11:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Owsley	28 min
Aug 2, 12:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Knox	40 min
Aug 2, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	39 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.