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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Jackson, KY

March 27, 1994Magoffin County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 27, 1994, 7:47 PM EST for Magoffin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1994, 7:47 PM EST (00:47 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1994, 2:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Magoffin County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1994-03-28Temperature 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 1994-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 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
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry6 hr
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBreathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley6 hr
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLKnox6 hr
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLFloyd, Knott, Pike6 hr
Mar 28, 12:33 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLElliott6 hr
Mar 28, 1:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLLawrence6 hr
Mar 28, 1:56 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBell, Clay, Harlan, Leslie, Perry6 hr
Mar 28, 1:56 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBreathitt, Jackson, Owsley6 hr
Mar 28, 1:56 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLFloyd, Knott, Letcher, Magoffin, Pike6 hr
Mar 28, 1:56 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLKnox6 hr
Mar 28, 2:55 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLJohnson6 hr
Mar 28, 3:40 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMartin3 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.