A few rather intense rain showers produced more than flooding in parts of Letcher county. Evaporational cooling of the air beneath a few of the rain showers led to gusty winds at the surface out ahead of the showers themselves.
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The episode as NWS JKL wrote it up.
A few rather intense rain showers produced more than flooding in parts of Letcher county. Evaporational cooling of the air beneath a few of the rain showers led to gusty winds at the surface out ahead of the showers themselves. The winds were strong enough to take down a few trees at Payne Gap and near Eolia.
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 Mar 1, 12:55 PM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1255 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007 .SHORT TERM.../THE REST OF TODAY/ LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS WITH SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG 850 MB JET AS WELL AS GOOD CONVERGENCE WILL GRADUALLY MOVE OUT...WITH NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOLLOWING IN GOOD ISENTROPIC ENVIRONMENT. RAINFALL HAS HELPED BRING DEWPOINTS UP INTO THE LOWER 40S IN THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA...WITH MID AND UPPER 40S NEAR THE INTERSTATE 75 CORRIDOR. MAIN LINE OF STRONGER CONVECTION IS CURRENTLY NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT. UNTIL THIS FEATURE APPROACHES THIS EVENING...EXPECT THE SEVERE THREAT TO BE RATHER LOW WITH DOWNSLOPE WINDS AND LIMITED INSTABILITY...AS SATELLITE IS SHOWING A RATHER EXTENSIVE AREA OF CLOUDS IN THE WAKE OF THE CURRENT AREA OF PRECIPITATION AFFECTING US. WILL FRESHEN UP THE ZONES TO REFLECT THE CURRENT TRENDS. THE PREVIOUS SHORT TERM FORECAST DISCUSSION FOLLOWS... /TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/ WEATHER REMINISCENT OF EARLY SPRING WINDING UP ACROSS THE MS RVR AND INTO THE OH/TN VALLEYS. NOSE OF 150+ KT JET TO ACCOMPANY STORMS INTO CNTRL/ERN KY SO UPPER DIVERGENCE TO ADD TO SVR PUNCH THIS EVENING. NAM BUFR INDICATING GOOD UNI- DIRECTIONAL SHEAR...INDICATING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL TO BE THE GREATEST THREATS. HOWEVER CAPE NOT IMPRESSIVE AND BEST INSTABILITY LOOKS TO BE ELEVATED BUT FNTL DYNAMICS MAY OVERCOME THIS LACK. MOST PCPN TO CLEAR THE STATE BY 06Z WITH COOLER BY NOT YET COLD AIR AS WEST WINDS BEHIND THE FNT DO NOT TAP THE COLDER AIR OVER THE NRN PLAINS. .LONG TERM.../SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/ SAT TO SEE VERY LITTLE DIURNAL TEMP RISE AS LOW TRACKS UP THE ST LAWRENCE AND WINDS SHIFT TO NW. STILL A DRY FCST EXCEPT THAT THE LOW LVLWINDS WILL TAP LK MI TO BRING CHC OF LK EFFECT/UPSLOPE FLURRIES TO OUR CWFA. ANY PCPN WILL BE VERY LIGHT AND LITTLE SNOW ACCUM EXPECTED. HIGH PRESS TO BUILD INTO THE GULF STATES KEEPING ANY STORM TRACK TO OUR NORTH AND PROVIDING AT BEST ONLY A GLANCING BLOW TO OUR AREA WITH THE BULK OF WEATHER CONFINED TO SRN CANADA AND THE NRN GT LKS. && .AVIATION.../18Z TO 18Z/...UPDATED WINDESPREAD SHOWERS ALONG WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO SCATTER OUT A BIT IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS...HOWEVER DO NOT EXPECT MUCH OF A DRY WINDOW AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES THIS EVENING. LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR...ALONG WITH MVFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST...WITH CONDITIONS GOING TEMPORARILY IFR IN ANY OF THE STRONGER STORMS. APPEARS THAT THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TAF SITES BETWEEN 9 PM AND MIDNIGHT THURSDAY. THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN OUR AREA BE IN A WINDOW ROUGHLY FROM 6 PM TO MIDNIGHT. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE TO VFR FROM WEST TO EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT...HOWEVER WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE GUSTY THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD. && .JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...DUSTY/GEOGERIAN LONG TERM....DUSTY AVIATION...RAY/GEOGERIAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 430 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-021200- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-ROCKCASTLE- JACKSON-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY-WHITLEY-KNOX-BELL-HARLAN- ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-LEE-BREATHITT-KNOTT- OWSLEY-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGSBURG...MOUNT STERLING... OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD...IRVINE...STANTON...FRENCHBURG... MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...SOMERSET...LONDON...MONTICELLO... WHITLEY CITY...CORBIN...WILLIAMSBURG...BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO... PINEVILLE...HARLAN...SANDY HOOK...WEST LIBERTY...PAINTSVILLE... CAMPTON...SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG...BEATTYVILLE...JACKSON... HINDMAN...BOONEVILLE...HAZARD...MANCHESTER...HYDEN...WHITESBURG... INEZ...PIKEVILLE 430 PM EST THU MAR 1 2007 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA TONIGHT...MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL ON GROUND THAT IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE RAIN THAT OCCURRED DURING THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON HOURS OF THURSDAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF FRIDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR LIGHT SNOW FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED FROM THIS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING THIS EVENING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF FRIDAY. GREIF
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Two trees down in Payne Gap.
A tree was blown down two miles west of Eolia.
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