Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2010
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2010, 8:13 PM EDT for 4 counties in 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
- May 12, 2010, 8:13 PM EDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2010, 10:19 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bath County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Rowan County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 368 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
- 412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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.