Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Watches in 2014
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at May 28, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT for 17 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at May 28, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 29 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT (08:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 28, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 29, 2014, 7:21 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bath County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 May 27, 7:38 PM EDT, 8 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 7:38 PM EDT, 8 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 4:03 PM EDT, 11 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 403 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2014 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-280815- 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 403 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL THROUGH THIS EVENING. ADDITIONALLY...ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVE REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME LOCATION COULD RESULT IN MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...AND AGAIN FROM SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY INSTANCES OF FLOODING...HAIL...OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE THIS EVENING. JMW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Johnson, Morgan | 116 min |
| May 27, 8:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson, Morgan | 3 hr |
| May 28, 3:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Martin | 105 min |
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.