Alert archive / Kentucky / Red Flag Warnings in 2010
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this red flag warning at Apr 16, 2010, 3:35 PM EDT for 15 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 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
- Apr 16, 2010, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2010, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Breathitt County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.