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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at Jun 4, 2014, 12:54 PM EDT for 14 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2014, 12:54 PM EDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2014, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bath County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Jun 4, 8:22 AM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:22 AM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 12:41 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1241 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014 KYZ044-052-041715- ROWAN-FLEMING- 1241 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014 ...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THROUGH 115 PM EDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... ROWAN AND EAST CENTRAL FLEMING. AT 1240 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR MOREHEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...HALDEMAN... TRIPLETT...VALE...AND WALT. RESIDENTS SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IN THESE AREAS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER THEN LIGHTNING IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE A HAZARD. RAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 76 min |
| Jun 4, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Martin, Pike | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 4:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 23 min |
| Jun 4, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Lee, Owsley | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 7:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Owsley | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, Perry | 38 min |
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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.