NWS Jackson KY
WFO JKL SLEP Pedestal Replacement 8/5/2021
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- WFO JKL SLEP Pedestal Replacement 8/5/2021
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Short 2 minute video clip (time lapse) of the replacement of the WSR-88D radar pedestal as part of the NWS WSR-88D service life extension project (SLEP).
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- Grade School Weather
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Here we discuss basic weather patterns, systems, and fronts. Tornadoes and weather safety are also included. This presentation is intended for grade school age children, but all are welcome to view!
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- "West Liberty: When Mother Nature Takes Over" (Courtesy WTVQ)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Put together by WTVQ (ABC36 Lexington) - A documentary looking back at the devastating March 2, 2012 tornado that hit West Liberty, as well as a severe weather safety roundtable near the end of the video including WTVQ and NWS Jackson, KY.
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- June 15, 2017 Webcam Time Lapse & "Scary Looking Cloud"
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Here's a time-lapse video of a thunderstorm that passed by to the southeast of our office this evening. Notice the "scary looking cloud" that forms in advance of the storm at about 7:55 pm. This cloud formed on the gust front being pushed out from the storm and remained fairly consistent until moving out of view of the camera. A lot of people mistake clouds like this as s funnel cloud. Remember, if you think you see a funnel cloud but you don't see any rotation, then all you have is just a "scary looking cloud".
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- Thunderstorm Gust Front Time Lapse 7/18/2016
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Time lapse of the passage of a thunderstorm gust front during the late morning hours of July 18, 2016 at NWS Jackson, KY.
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- Incident Meteorologist Upper Air Balloon Release Test
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- An Incident Meteorologist (IMET) can launch upper air balloons at remote locations to help aid in forecasting for impactful events such as wildfires or other disasters. Any instrument is attached below the balloon and sends back critical weather information as it passes up through the atmosphere, such as wind, temperature, and dewpoint. In this video, you see one of the familiarization test balloon launches conducted by 2 of our local IMET's here at the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Jackson, KY.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- Incident Meteorologist Inflating Upper Air Balloon
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- An Incident Meteorologist (IMET) will inflate and release upper air balloons to retrieve critical data through the atmosphere. This data can be used to help forecast critical weather changes that can impact an incident such as a wildfire or other disaster. In this video, one of Jackson, KY National Weather Serivce (NWS) IMET's is inflating one of these balloons as a test.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- NOAA Weather Radio Upgraded
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- This morning (Wednesday July 14th, 2016) we cut over to a new system that runs our All Hazards NOAA Weather Radio. We used to run the weather radio system on technology that essentially hasn't changed since 1998. The operation of the weather radio has now been integrated into our main Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS II). This is our main networked computer system all NWS offices use for our warning and forecast operations. The only thing listeners should notice is a new and better voice. This system uses the NeoSpeech text-to-voice software. The voice dictionary may occasionally mispronounce words. Changes will be made over time to improve the dictionary. Please let us know if you hear any mispronunciation or something odd. Thanks!
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- Winter Scene from NWS Jackson, KY (February 18, 2015)
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Snow squall creates near white-out conditions at NWS Jackson, KY as an arctic cold front passes through.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- Bert T. Combs, Turn Around Don't Drown PSA
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Bert T. Combs, former Governor of Kentucky, died while trying to cross flood water of the Red River. This PSA discussing the event and reminding everyone to Turn Around Don't Drown was a joint venture between WYMT-TV and NWS Jackson, KY.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- Roll Cloud at NWS Jackson KY
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Time lapse of a roll cloud that passed through eastern Kentucky on the morning of August 3, 2015. Roll clouds are named so because of the apparent -rolling- that takes place along it's horizontal axis. This particular cloud feature was produced by a fast moving convective outflow boundary. The thunderstorm responsible for the outflow boundary had dissipated long before this video was captured.
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- Time Lapse of Shelf Cloud Around 10:30 AM This Morning
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Video of shelf cloud rolling through Jackson Carroll Airport this morning around 10:30 AM.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- 9/8/2014 Gust Front Passage
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This time lapse spans from 5 pm until 7 pm and shows a gust front approaching and then passing the office from an east-southeast direction. The gust front originated from a thunderstorm well to our southeast earlier in the afternoon. Towering cumulus clouds can be seen developing on the edge of the gust front it approaches.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- 9/7/2014 Multiple Cloud Layers Going Multiple Directions
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This time lapse spans from around 4 pm through around 8 pm and shows the movement of multiple cloud layers. The lower clouds in the video were moving from a northeast to southwest direction, while the clouds above were moving in the opposite direction, from southwest to northeast. This was caused by the passage of what we call a "shallow" cold front the previous night. Low level winds behind the front were from the northeast, but winds quickly backed around to the north, west and finally southwest as you went higher into the atmosphere.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- 9/6/2014 Afternoon Storms then Fog
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This time lapse runs from Noon until nightfall around 8:30 pm and shows developing cumulus clouds and then a thunderstorm on station. After the storm passes, whisps of fog can be seen moving out of the valleys and following the variable wind flow.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- 9/6/2014 Morning Fog
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This time lapse spans from first light around 6:35 am through noon, and shows the undulations of fog below us in the Quicksand Creek drainage before burning off.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- 6/28/2014 Rainbow
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This time lapse spans from 8 pm until 9 pm and shows part of very persistent rainbow, which moves as the sun sets.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- 9/4/2014 Storms in Distance
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This time lapse spans from 4:45 pm until nightfall at around 8:30 pm and shows building cumulus and some cumulonimbus clouds around 50 miles to the southeast over Pine and Black Mountains. Heavy rain showers and thunderstorms were occurring under these clouds.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- 7/4/2014 Fog
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This time lapse begins just before sunrise at 5:30 am EDT and continues until 9:00 am EDT, shortly after the last of the fog burns off. You can see the fog "snaking" around in the Quicksand Creek drainage basin, changing direction as the wind changes.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- 9/4/2014 Thunderstorm
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This time lapse spans from 11 am until 315 pm and shows a rapidly developing cumulus cloud field, followed by showers and finally a thunderstorm, which dumped 1.02" of rain at the office in about 30 minutes.
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National Weather Service
Weather Forecast Office
Jackson, KY
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- The Cold January of 2014 - February 5, 2014
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A review of the cold weather of January, 2014 in eastern Kentucky.
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- No Hazardous Weather Briefing is Available at this Time
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Hazardous Weather Briefings are an event driven service and are not routinely available.
