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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Jackson, KY

July 21, 1999Breathitt County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 1999, 5:41 PM EDT for Breathitt County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 21, 1999, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1999, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Breathitt County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 1999-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1082 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1999-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 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
1082 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 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
Jul 21, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt48 min
Jul 21, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMorgan47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.