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Flood Watch 2, NWS Jackson, KY

January 30, 201318 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flood watch at Jan 30, 2013, 11:58 AM EST for 18 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 30, 2013, 11:58 AM EST (16:58 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 2013, 11:43 PM EST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Flood severity: None

Counties Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Whitley County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 725 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 925 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Jan 30, 11:45 AM EST, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 11:45 AM EST, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 30, 11:20 AM EST, 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:09 AM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:12 AM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:24 AM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:25 AM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:39 AM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:47 AM EST, 1 hour 11 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
Jan 30, 5:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	46 min
Jan 30, 6:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne, Whitley	53 min
Jan 30, 6:28 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	32 min
Jan 30, 6:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery, Owsley and 3 more	49 min
Jan 30, 6:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan	48 min
Jan 30, 6:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Rockcastle	40 min
Jan 30, 7:04 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	41 min
Jan 30, 7:15 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	30 min
Jan 30, 7:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	49 min
Jan 30, 7:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Owsley and 3 more	47 min
Jan 30, 7:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knott and 6 more	45 min
Jan 30, 8:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin and 1 more	44 min
Jan 30, 8:04 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin and 1 more	41 min
Jan 30, 8:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	63 min
Jan 30, 8:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Martin, Pike	53 min
Jan 30, 8:43 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Knott, Letcher, Perry, Pike	47 min
Jan 30, 2:08 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and 4 more	6 hr
Jan 30, 3:15 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Letcher	18 hr
Jan 30, 3:40 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Knox, Whitley	24 hr
Jan 30, 5:39 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Knott, Leslie, Magoffin and 2 more	16 hr
Jan 30, 5:54 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Pike	6 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.