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Areal Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY

August 6, 2012Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this areal flood warning at Aug 6, 2012, 2:59 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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
Aug 6, 2012, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Pike County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 258 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2012-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 422 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2012-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
422 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 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
Aug 6, 2:14 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLBath99 min
Aug 6, 6:26 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLPike2 hr
Aug 6, 7:16 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLMcCreary, Wayne, Whitley5 hr
Aug 6, 9:04 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLFloyd, Pike3 hr
Aug 6, 9:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLPike3 hr
Aug 6, 11:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLPike3 hr
Aug 6, 12:06 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLFloyd, Pike3 hr
Aug 6, 12:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLFloyd, Pike4 hr
Aug 6, 12:38 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLBreathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin2 hr

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.