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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY

January 7, 1998Pulaski County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 7, 1998, 3:48 PM EST for Pulaski County, Kentucky. It was in force for 97 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
Jan 7, 1998, 3:48 PM EST (20:48 UTC)
Expired
Jan 7, 1998, 5:25 PM EST
In force
97 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Pulaski County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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 12:00Z on 1998-01-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1998-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 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.

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jan 7, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
230 PM EST WED JAN 7 1998

12Z PROG PKG SHOWS SYSTEM SLOWING DOWN WITH SIGNIFICANT MSTR
CONTINUING TO MOVE UP OVER SE KY. GOOD LIFT THROUGH 08/09Z THEN
BEGINNING DVM. THETA E RDG OVER EAST KENTUCKY TONIGHT WITH GREATER
THAN 1.0 IN PW THROUGH 08/12Z.

94E CALLING FOR FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE TO BE EXCEEDED THROUGHOUT HSA
WITH 5 IN POSSIBLE OVER PART OF CUMBERLAND BASIN. EAST KENTUCKY
ALREADY SATURATED.

JKL 55/58/39/43 9542
LOZ 67/53/57-42 9422

MARSHALL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 3:41 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLRockcastle3 hr
Jan 7, 3:59 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLPowell3 hr
Jan 7, 4:28 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBath, Montgomery3 hr
Jan 7, 4:41 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMcCreary, Wayne2 hr
Jan 7, 4:53 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLEstill, Jackson2 hr
Jan 7, 4:53 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLFleming, Menifee, Rowan2 hr
Jan 7, 5:16 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLPulaski114 min
Jan 7, 6:23 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMcCreary, Pulaski, Wayne3 hr
Jan 7, 6:23 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLFleming3 hr
Jan 7, 6:23 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLJackson, Rockcastle3 hr
Jan 7, 6:23 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLEstill3 hr
Jan 7, 6:23 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Rowan3 hr

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.