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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Jackson, KY

May 29, 1996Harlan County, Knott County, Letcher County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1996, 12:28 AM EDT for Harlan County, Knott County, Letcher County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 29, 1996, 12:28 AM EDT (04:28 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1996, 3:30 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harlan County, KY, Knott County, KY, Letcher County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 300 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1996-05-29Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1996-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, May 28, 11:28 PM EDT, 1 hour before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 9:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson59 min
May 28, 10:02 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLLee, Wolfe58 min
May 28, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLOwsley62 min
May 28, 10:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Perry60 min
May 28, 10:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay, Leslie60 min
May 28, 10:39 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLBreathitt61 min
May 28, 11:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLKnott59 min
May 28, 11:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLBreathitt, Lee, Wolfe2 hr
May 28, 11:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLOwsley, Perry2 hr
May 28, 11:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Magoffin62 min
May 28, 11:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLeslie, Perry47 min
May 29, 12:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLClay, Leslie3 hr
May 29, 12:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLFloyd, Knott, Magoffin3 hr
May 29, 12:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLetcher63 min
May 29, 12:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLJackson3 hr
May 29, 12:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBell48 min
May 29, 12:44 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLBell3 hr
May 29, 2:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLBreathitt, Clay, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Perry90 min
May 29, 2:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLBell, Knox90 min
May 29, 2:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLHarlan, Leslie, Letcher90 min
May 29, 2:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLMagoffin, Wolfe90 min
May 29, 2:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLFloyd, Knott90 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.