Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Watches in 2006
Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at Sep 22, 2006, 11:32 PM EDT for 33 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2006, 11:32 PM EDT (03:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2006, 6:27 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Flood severity
- None
All 33 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Sep 22, 5:25 PM EDT, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 5:25 PM EDT, 6 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 22, 9:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 949 PM EDT FRI SEP 22 2006 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>085-231100- FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-ROCKCASTLE- JACKSON-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY-WHITLEY- 949 PM EDT FRI SEP 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. AREAS THAT EXPERIENCE PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS WILL RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN AND WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINFALL...LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO SATURDAY EVENING AHEAD OF A UNSEASONABLY STRONG COLD FRONT. WHILE DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE GREATEST THREAT...LARGE HAIL AND A TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AS A BAND OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CROSS EAST KENTUCKY FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER LATER TONIGHT AND ON SATURDAY AND FOR HEAVY RAIN SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. KYZ086>088-104-106>120-231100- KNOX-BELL-HARLAN-ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-LEE- BREATHITT-KNOTT-OWSLEY-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- 949 PM EDT FRI SEP 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO SATURDAY EVENING AHEAD OF A UNSEASONABLY STRONG COLD FRONT...ESPECIALLY WEST OF A SANDY HOOK TO MANCHESTER TO MIDDLESBORO LINE. WHILE DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE GREATEST THREAT...LARGE HAIL AND A TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AS A BAND OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CROSS EAST KENTUCKY FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND FOR HEAVY RAIN SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. JP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 3:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Menifee | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 4:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Morgan | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 4:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 23 min |
| Sep 23, 5:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 8:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 11:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Powell | 27 min |
| Sep 23, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 40 min |
| Sep 23, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee | 13 min |
| Sep 23, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 39 min |
| Sep 23, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Powell | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Owsley | 47 min |
| Sep 23, 6:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Laurel | 23 min |
| Sep 23, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 51 min |
| Sep 23, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Whitley | 27 min |
| Sep 23, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 28 min |
| Sep 23, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 24 min |
| Sep 23, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd | 31 min |
| Sep 23, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 27 min |
| Sep 23, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.