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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS Jackson, KY

July 13, 201533 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 13, 2015, 3:11 AM EDT for 33 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jul 13, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 40 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 2015, 3:11 AM EDT (07:11 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 13, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 15, 2015, 3:40 AM EDT
In force: 40 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Flood severity: None

All 33 counties

Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher 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 07:13 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 1743 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 6.9

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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 Jul 13, 2:41 AM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 2:41 AM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 10:35 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 10:21 PM EDT, 4 hours 50 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
Jul 13, 12:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Johnson	2 hr
Jul 13, 12:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Johnson	3 hr
Jul 13, 1:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Martin, Pike	115 min
Jul 13, 1:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	3 hr
Jul 13, 2:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	3 hr
Jul 13, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	36 min
Jul 13, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Magoffin	37 min
Jul 13, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Johnson, Morgan	49 min
Jul 13, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	41 min
Jul 13, 2:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	4 hr
Jul 13, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	30 min
Jul 13, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee and 5 more	30 min
Jul 13, 3:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	118 min
Jul 13, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell, Wolfe	47 min
Jul 13, 3:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Rowan	116 min
Jul 13, 3:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	3 hr
Jul 13, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin and 6 more	33 min
Jul 13, 3:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Lee and 5 more	29 min
Jul 13, 4:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	5 hr
Jul 13, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, Pike	60 min
Jul 13, 4:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Magoffin and 5 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Leslie and 5 more	36 min
Jul 13, 4:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Johnson, Knott and 8 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	38 min
Jul 13, 4:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Floyd, Knott, Knox, Laurel and 4 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson, Knott and 6 more	65 min
Jul 13, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	18 min
Jul 13, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	13 min
Jul 13, 5:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	3 hr
Jul 13, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski	25 min
Jul 13, 6:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Martin and 1 more	9 hr
Jul 13, 6:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	2 hr
Jul 13, 6:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	2 hr
Jul 13, 6:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming	119 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.