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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Jackson, KY

February 9, 1994Harlan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 9, 1994, 5:59 AM EST for Harlan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 9, 1994, 5:59 AM EST (10:59 UTC)
Expired
Feb 9, 1994, 10:00 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Harlan County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1994-02-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1994-02-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 409 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
409 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
481 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 9, 1:54 AM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
^SDFLSRJKL

PRELIMINARLY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
155 AM EST WED FEB 9 1994

COUNTY       TIME                         EVENT

JACKSON     1205-1210      COUNTY DES DIRECTOR REPORTED TREES AND POWER
            AM EST         LINES DOWN IN MCKEE.

PERRY
Local storm report, Feb 9, 1:55 AM EST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
^SDFLSRJKL

PRELIMINARLY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
155 AM EST WED FEB 9 1994

COUNTY       TIME                         EVENT

JACKSON     1205-1210      COUNTY DES DIRECTOR REPORTED TREES AND POWER
            AM EST         LINES DOWN IN MCKEE.

PERRY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 8, 11:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLJohnson, Martin3 hr
Feb 9, 12:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson55 min
Feb 9, 12:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMagoffin, Morgan4 hr
Feb 9, 2:37 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLHarlan3 hr
Feb 9, 11:08 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLCarter112 min
Feb 9, 11:08 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLJohnson, Martin112 min
Feb 9, 3:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLGallia4 hr
Feb 9, 3:33 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMeigs4 hr
Feb 9, 11:08 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLGallia, Meigs112 min
Feb 8, 9:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMason3 hr
Feb 9, 8:03 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLWayne3 hr
Feb 9, 11:08 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLWayne112 min

Nearby

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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.