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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at Aug 10, 2013, 4:10 AM EDT for Fleming County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2013, 4:10 AM EDT (08:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2013, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Flood severity
- None
County Fleming County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Aug 10, 2:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 2:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 459 PM EDT FRI AUG 9 2013 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-101100- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGSBURG...MOUNT STERLING... OWINGSVILLE...MOREHEAD...IRVINE...STANTON...FRENCHBURG... MOUNT VERNON...MCKEE...SOMERSET...LONDON...MONTICELLO... WHITLEY CITY...CORBIN...WILLIAMSBURG...BARBOURVILLE...MIDDLESBORO... PINEVILLE...HARLAN...SANDY HOOK...WEST LIBERTY...PAINTSVILLE... CAMPTON...SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG...BEATTYVILLE...JACKSON... HINDMAN...BOONEVILLE...HAZARD...MANCHESTER...HYDEN...WHITESBURG... INEZ...PIKEVILLE 459 PM EDT FRI AUG 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES DURING THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT HEAVY RAINFALL OF GREATER THAN AN INCH IN AN HOUR TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON. HAL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:34 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 9:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 9:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Fleming | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Fleming | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:17 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:39 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Fleming | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Jackson, Lee, Owsley | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson, Lee, Owsley | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 4 hr |
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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.