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NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 7, 5:30 AM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 630 AM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE POPS...TIMING OF PRECIPITATION...AND SEVERE RISK ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING. A DEEP LAYER OF MOISTURE AND SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH EMBEDDED VORT WITHING BROAD TROUGH WILL AFFECT OUR WEATHER TODAY. SURFACE CHART REVEALS A CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE WITH A TROUGH EXTENDING NORTHEAST INTO THE CWA...A WARM FRONT EXTENDING EAST INTO NORTH CAROLINA AND A TRAILING COLD FRONT EXTENDING SOUTH SOUTHWEST TO THE GULF COAST. RADAR SHOWS WIDESPREAD RAIN ACROSS THE CWA WITH MORE COMING. SOME AREAS APPROACHING FFG FOR 6 AND 12 HOURS. BY TONIGHT...THE SHOULD BE TO OUR EAST...BUT IT WILL NOT BE LONG UNTIL ANOTHER SYSTEM ARRIVES. A SHORT PERIOD OF SUBSIDENCE WILL OCCUR SUNDAY MORNING...BUT WILL NOT LAST LONG. SHOULD GET SOME DECENT WARM AIR ADVECTION IN ADVANCE OF THE APPROACHING SYSTEM WITH SOME DECENT SUNSHINE...SO GOING WITH TEMPS ON THE WARM SIDE INTO THE LOWER TO MID 80S ACROSS THE CWA. NEXT WEATHER MAKER IS CLEARLY VISIBLE ON WATER VAPOR AS AN UPPER LOW NEAR THE MONTANA/WYOMING BORDER HEADS SOUTHEAST. THIS COULD BE A POTENT WEATHER MAKER FOR US AS THE TIMING OF THE SYSTEM COULD GIVE US THE MOST FAVORABLE INSTABILITY ACCOMPANYING THE DYNAMICS. I EXPECT A STRONG WIND PROFILE SUNDAY EVENING AS THE FRONT/TROUGH GOES THROUGH. .JKL...NONE. HEINLEIN -------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS FOLLOW -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1005 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2003 UPDATE TONIGHT TO ADJUST ZONE WORDING. EDITED HOURLY TEMP...POP...AND WEATHER FIELDS IN GRIDS. KEEPING TS IN FORECAST FOR TONIGHT...SCATTERED AT MOST WITH SOME INSTABILITY SHOWING UP LATER ON. COUPLE OF LIGHTNING STRIKES SHOWING UP IN CENTRAL TN. SO FAR META PAINTING OF QPF IS TURNING OUT FAIRLY GOOD...ALTHOUGH TIMING ISNT. WE ARE LOOKING GOOD IN THE HYDRO DEPARTMENT. LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT 00Z RUNS HAVE. UPDATED ZONES OUT SHORTLY. OUDEMAN ------------------------------------------------------------------- 335 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2003 CURRENT SFC MAP FEATURES LOW PRESSURE IN LOUISIANA WITH WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY DANGLING ALONG THE GULF STATES. 12Z UPPER AIR ALONG WITH SAT PICS INDICATE TWO WELL DEFINED 5H LOWS...ONE IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS...AND THE OTHER SPINNING JUST NORTH OF MONTANA. RIDGING HAS KEPT THE CLOUDS FROM SPREADING INTO THE CWA TODAY. CLOUD AS WELL AS PRECIP SHIELD WILL EVENTUALLY WORK ITS WAY IN FROM THE SOUTH THIS EVENING. ISENTROPIC LIFT LOOKS VERY AMPLE AS FRONT LIFTS NORTH. WILL LEAVE THE MENTION OF AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IN THERE DESPITE A MAINLY ANTICIPATED STRATIFORM EVENT. QPF AMOUNTS SEEM TO BE THE BIGGEST DIFFERING CONCERN. ETA TRYING TO BULLSEYE AN AREA OF PRECIP OUT TO THE WEST OF OUR AREA IN RESPONSE TO PROGGED VORT MAX...ALONG WITH ENHANCEMENT FROM A RRQ JET LIFTING NORTHEAST. NOT TOO SURE ABOUT THIS ENHANCEMENT AS ETA DID NOT INITIALIZE THAT WELL AT THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...AND VORT MAX GENERATED DOES NOT SEEM TO REFLECT MUCH OF A TROUGHY RESPONSE IN THE 5H FLOW. ON THE OTHER HAND...THE GFS CONTINUES TO OVER-EMPHASIZE THE CONVECTIVE ENHANCEMENT FACTOR...ESPECIALLY TOMORROW MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. GFS WANTS TO INITIATE AN EMBEDDED S/WV/VORT MAX EARLY IN THE PERIOD TOMORROW. THE QPF RESULTS ARE ALARMING AS 1.5 TO 2.0 INCHES OF PRECIP IS SLUNG OUR WAY. THE 6Z RUN DIDNT HAVE THIS KIND OF RESPONSE QPF WISE AND AM LEARY OF THIS SOLUTION. 1 TO 1.5 INCHES SEEMS PRETTY REASONABLE THROUGH TOMORROW AFTERNOON...WITH A FEW ISOLATED SPOTS OF 1.75 INCHES NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. WITH FFG VALUES IN OUR FAVOR...HYDRO PROBLEMS SHOULD BE CONFINED TO URBAN AND SMALL STREAM TYPE FLOODING POTENTIAL...HOWEVER DUE TO MODEL DISAGREEMENT WITH THIS SYSTEM...A CLOSE MONITOR OF THE SITUATION WILL BE WARRANTED. STILL WANT TO KEEP A MENTION OF HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW AS EXPECTED AMOUNTS CONCUR WITH THAT WORDING. NEXT SYSTEM TO CLOSELY FOLLOW ON SUNDAY. STRONG S/WV TO PLOW THROUGH THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT. A POTENTIALLY STRONG CONVECTIVE LINE WILL INITIATE ALONG THE COLD FRONT...AND TRACK ACROSS THE AREA. TIMING IS STILL AN ISSUE. HAVE INCLUDED SOME SLIGHT AFTERNOON POPS ON SUNDAY WITH HIGHS APPROACHING 85 IN MOST PLACES. MAIN LINE STILL LOOKS TO AFFECT OUR AREA AFTER SUNSET. DRY WEATHER FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS AMPLIFIED FLOW TRANSITIONS TO MORE ZONAL PATTERN. PERTURBATIONS IN THE FLOW WED-FRI ALONG WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN THE VICINITY WILL KEEP THE CHANCE OF CONVECTION GOING THROUGH THE LATTER PART OF THE NEXT WORKWEEK. .JKL...NONE. GEOGERIAN PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS FOLLOW --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1152 AM EDT FRI JUN 6 2003 CLD COVER SLOW TO MOVE IN OVER FA...ALLOWING TEMPS TO CLIMB FASTER THEN INITIALLY EXPECTED. AT 11 AM 70S ALREADY POPPING UP AT MANY STATIONS ACROSS REGION. SAT CURRENTLY SHOWS DRY AIR AND MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES OVER EASTERN KENTUCKY. PRECIPITATION STILL ON TAP FOR THIS EVENING...BUT COULD BE LATER THEN EXPECTED. GRIDS ALREADY ADJUSTED AND UPDATE SENT TO BUMP AFTERNOON TEMPS UP AND REDUCE CLOUD COVER. WINDS ALSO TWEAKED. MCLANE --------------------------------------------------------------------- 900 AM EDT FRI JUN 6 2003 QUICK UPDATE TO ADJUST SKY COVER IN WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF FA. SAT SHOWS CLOUD COVER ERODING AS IT MOVES INTO REGION. USED INCREASING CLOUDS WORDING...AS STILL EXPECT MORE COVER AS DAY PROGRESSES. NO OTHER CHANGES ATM. MCLANE
KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-081100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 659 AM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR LOCALIZED SMALL STREAM FLOODING THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY EVENING. EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS WITH BOWING SEGMENTS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES AND PERHAPS HAIL. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY EVENING. HEINLEIN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rockcastle County 911 reported that United States Highway 25 North near the town of Conway was covered with water and impassable.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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