1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Sep 16, 9:53 AM EST, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1053 AM EDT TUE SEP 16 2003 HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE REGION PROVIDING BEAUTIFUL WEATHER. GOOD AMOUNT OF VALLEY FOG THIS MORNING IN THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF OF CWA...SHOWED UP VERY WELL ON VISIBLE SATELLITE...BURNING OFF NOW. MAY SEE A FEW CU TODAY...ESPECIALLY OVER THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS TO THE SOUTHEAST SO WILL STICK WITH CURRENT FORECASTS MOSTLY SUNNY. TEMPS APPEAR ON TRACK FOR THE MOST PART. ONLY CHANGE WAS TO BRING DEW POINTS UP A BIT IN THE GRIDS TO BETTER AGREE WITH OBS. NO UPDATE PLANNED FOR NOW. .JKL...NONE. RAY ===================================================================== PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS FOLLOW ===================================================================== 148 AM EDT TUE SEP 16 2003 SHORT TERM FCST HAS HIGH PRESS IN CONTROL. EXPECTING NO SIG WX THRU THU. MAIN FCST CHALLENGE WILL BE POSSIBLE MORNING FOG AND RIDGE/VALLEY SPLIT TO LOW TEMPS. DWPTS RUNNING IN THE MID 50S WITH NO T/TD DEPRESSION. PATCHY FOG ALREADY NOTED AT KLOZ AND WITH LIGHT WINDS THIS WILL ONLY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD IN OUR RIVER VALLEYS. FOG WILL HELP TO HOLD UP OUR VALLEY TEMPS AND HENCE REDUCE THE RIDGE/VALLEY SPLIT. STILL FEEL THERE WILL BE ENUF SPLIT TO MENTION IN ZONES. IN THE EXTENDED...THE FCST TRACK OF ISABEL WILL DETERMINE OUR WX. WITH THE MORE WESTERLY TRACK NOW FCST...THERE WILL BE A MUCH GREATER CHANCE TO ACTUALLY SEE SOME WX EFFECTS FRI AS SHE PASSES TO THE NORTH. CURRENT FCST ALREADY HAS CHC POPS FOR FRI AND FEEL THIS IS GOOD CONSIDERING THE UNCERTANITY OF THE LONG TERM POSITIONING OF ISABEL. STILL FRI SEEMS THE ONLY DAY IN QUESTION AS WE GET SQUEEZED BETWEEN THE PLAINS TROF AND ISABEL. BY SAT ALL WILL BE PAST OUR CWFA AND WE START ANOTHER DRY PD. TEMPS GENERALLY IN THE MID 70S FOR HIGHS TO MID 50S FOR LOWS. COOLEST DAYS WILL BE FRI/SAT WITH THE HEAVY CLOUD COVER...AREA RAIN AND PASSAGE OF THE PLAINS FRONT AS TEMPS DROP TO AROUND 70 AND AROUND 50 FOR HIGH/LOW. DUSTY --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1048 PM EDT MON SEP 15 2003 SFC HIGH PRESSURE CONTROLLING FOR TONIGHT WITH SOME VERY PLEASANT DEWPOINTS WORKING THEIR WAY IN. VALLEY TEMPS IN THE UPPER 40S AND RIDGES BETWEEN 50 AND 55 LOOK ON TARGET. WILL ONLY BE MORE OPTIMISTIC WITH SKY WORDING AND GO CLEAR ALL ZONES AS AFTERNOON SCU DIED WITH SUNSET. UPDATE OUT SHORTLY. GEOGERIAN
KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-171100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 336 AM EDT TUE SEP 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Three quarter inch hail was reported at Long's Creek from a co-operative observer.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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