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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Jackson, KY

June 3, 2010Clay County, Jackson County, Owsley County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 2010, 8:54 PM EDT for Clay County, Jackson County, Owsley 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: Jun 3, 2010, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2010, 11:07 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Clay County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Owsley County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 283 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Jun 3, 8:12 PM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 8:12 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
405 PM EDT THU JUN 3 2010

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-042315-
FLEMING-MONTGOMERY-BATH-ROWAN-ESTILL-POWELL-MENIFEE-ROCKCASTLE-
JACKSON-PULASKI-LAUREL-WAYNE-MCCREARY-WHITLEY-KNOX-BELL-HARLAN-
ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD-LEE-BREATHITT-KNOTT-
OWSLEY-PERRY-CLAY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE-
405 PM EDT THU JUN 3 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. SOME STORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAY BECOME
SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT
AND AGAIN FROM MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE
EVENING.

DUSTY/GREIF

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:57 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 8:25 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 8:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry	4 hr
Jun 3, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	30 min
Jun 3, 9:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Pike	2 hr
Jun 4, 12:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary	3 hr
Jun 4, 12:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill	4 hr
Jun 4, 5:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill	4 hr
Jun 4, 2:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Estill	83 min
Jun 4, 2:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Owsley	2 hr
Jun 4, 2:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pike	3 hr
Jun 4, 2:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	2 hr
Jun 4, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin	37 min
Jun 4, 3:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Floyd and 15 more	5 hr
Jun 4, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Fleming, Rowan	27 min
Jun 4, 3:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	66 min
Jun 4, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	32 min
Jun 4, 3:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary	68 min
Jun 4, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher, Pike	45 min
Jun 4, 4:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Leslie, Owsley and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 4, 5:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	3 hr
Jun 4, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	37 min
Jun 4, 6:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2010 Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.