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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Jackson, KY

February 11, 1994Bell County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 11, 1994, 2:15 AM EST for Bell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 11, 1994, 2:15 AM EST (07:15 UTC)
Expired
Feb 11, 1994, 6:00 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Bell County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 1994-02-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-02-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 342 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 11, 5:51 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBell, Harlan4 hr

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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.