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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Jackson, KY

May 25, 1996Floyd County, Magoffin County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT for Floyd County, Magoffin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Floyd County, KY, Magoffin County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-25Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Magoffin60 min
May 24, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPike88 min
May 24, 10:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLee, Wolfe62 min
May 24, 10:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLMagoffin4 hr
May 24, 10:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson61 min
May 24, 10:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Owsley63 min
May 24, 11:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLee, Wolfe65 min
May 24, 11:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLKnott, Letcher, Perry, Pike54 min
May 24, 11:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Magoffin55 min
May 24, 11:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLKnott, Perry62 min
May 24, 11:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLHarlan63 min
May 24, 11:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLeslie46 min
May 25, 12:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBell48 min
May 25, 12:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLKnott, Pike119 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.