Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Watches in 2014
Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at Aug 30, 2014, 8:24 PM EDT for 30 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 26 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2014, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2014, 10:04 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Flood severity
- None
All 30 counties
Bath County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 8:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Wayne | 4 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 4 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Magoffin | 44 min |
| Aug 31, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 28 min |
| Aug 31, 5:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Jackson, Magoffin, Owsley | 4 hr |
| Aug 31, 6:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd, Magoffin, Martin, Pike | 4 hr |
| Aug 31, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Johnson, Magoffin | 64 min |
| Aug 31, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill, Menifee, Morgan, Powell | 59 min |
| Aug 31, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott, Menifee, Powell, Rowan | 62 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.