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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY

May 29, 19966 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1996, 2:10 AM EDT for 6 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 90 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 29, 1996, 2:10 AM EDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1996, 3:40 AM EDT
In force
90 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Lee County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 301 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2991 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2991 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.6
Supercell composite
16.0

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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 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, 12:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLHarlan, Knott, Letcher3 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 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

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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.