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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Jackson, KY

October 23, 2010Bath County, Fleming County, Montgomery County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this red flag warning at Oct 23, 2010, 4:45 AM EDT for Bath County, Fleming County, Montgomery County, Kentucky. It took effect at Oct 23, 2010, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
Oct 23, 2010, 4:45 AM EDT (08:45 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 23, 2010, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired
Oct 23, 2010, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY

Counties Bath County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Montgomery County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 00:00Z on 2010-10-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2010-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 4:23 PM EDTFire Weather WatchJKLBath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more12 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Kentucky, 2010Every red flag 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.