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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY

February 16, 201615 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this areal flood warning at Feb 16, 2016, 2:04 AM EST for 15 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 2016, 2:04 AM EST (07:04 UTC)
Expired: Feb 17, 2016, 2:00 AM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 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 areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 16, 1:35 AM EST, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 1:35 AM EST, 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 9:56 PM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 16, 1:14 AM EST, 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
Feb 16, 1:00 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Johnson, Magoffin and 7 more	12 hr
Feb 16, 1:05 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Laurel and 8 more	12 hr
Feb 16, 1:08 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne and 1 more	12 hr
Feb 16, 1:38 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Martin and 3 more	12 hr
Feb 16, 6:11 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Owsley	43 hr
Feb 16, 6:11 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Lee	4 days
Feb 16, 6:11 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill	5 days
Feb 16, 6:11 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay	25 hr
Feb 16, 6:25 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Knox	45 hr
Feb 16, 6:25 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Whitley	3 days
Feb 16, 7:04 AM EST	Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	11 min
Feb 16, 8:12 AM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell	41 hr
Feb 16, 12:17 PM EST	River Flood Warning	JKL	Estill	46 hr
Feb 16, 12:55 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Letcher	10 hr
Feb 16, 1:13 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Martin	12 hr
Feb 16, 1:21 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Magoffin	12 hr
Feb 16, 1:57 PM EST	River Flood Warning	JKL	Owsley	24 hr
Feb 16, 2:06 PM EST	River Flood Warning	JKL	Lee	32 hr
Feb 16, 2:21 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Powell	65 hr
Feb 16, 5:24 PM EST	River Flood Warning	JKL	Whitley	41 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2016 Every areal flood warning in 2016

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.