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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this red flag warning at Apr 6, 2016, 1:51 PM EDT for 15 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 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
- Apr 6, 2016, 1:51 PM EDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
Counties Breathitt County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin 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 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
733 WWUS83 KJKL 061751 RFWJKL URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 151 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016 KYZ052-088-104-106>110-112-113-115-117>120-070300- /O.NEW.KJKL.FW.W.0003.160406T1751Z-160407T0300Z/ ROWAN-HARLAN-ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD- BREATHITT-KNOTT-PERRY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- 151 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 052...088...104...106...107...108...109...110...112...113...115... 117...118...119 AND 120... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 052 ROWAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 088 HARLAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 104 ELLIOTT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 106 MORGAN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 107 JOHNSON... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 108 WOLFE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 109 MAGOFFIN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 110 FLOYD...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 112 BREATHITT... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 113 KNOTT...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 115 PERRY... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 117 LESLIE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 118 LETCHER... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 119 MARTIN...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 120 PIKE. * STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 15 AND 25 PERCENT. THESE VALUES WILL COME UP AS RAIN MOVES IN LATE THIS EVENING. * ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
299 WWUS83 KJKL 070000 RFWJKL URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 800 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016 KYZ052-088-104-106>110-112-113-115-117>120-070100- /O.CAN.KJKL.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160407T0300Z/ ROWAN-HARLAN-ELLIOTT-MORGAN-JOHNSON-WOLFE-MAGOFFIN-FLOYD- BREATHITT-KNOTT-PERRY-LESLIE-LETCHER-MARTIN-PIKE- 800 PM EDT WED APR 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 052...088...104...106...107...108...109...110...112...113... 115...117...118...119 AND 120... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WITH THE APPROACH OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT HUMIDITIES HAVE CLIMBED ABOVE 25 PERCENT THROUGH FAR EASTERN KENTUCKY. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WINDS WILL STAY GUSTY THROUGH THE EVENING AS THE SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STORMS MOVE OVER THE AREA...THOUGH. $$ GREIF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Fleming | 35 min |
| Apr 6, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne | 50 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.