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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Jackson, KY

June 4, 20177 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at Jun 4, 2017, 9:58 PM EDT for 7 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2017, 9:58 PM EDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2017, 3:36 PM EDT
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Flood severity
None

Counties Bell County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2017-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 508 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2017-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.6

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 4:13 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLFleming, Rowan4 hr
Jun 5, 4:48 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLBath4 hr
Jun 5, 5:25 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLRowan3 hr
Jun 5, 6:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLFleming47 min
Jun 5, 6:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBath, Elliott, Montgomery, Rowan37 min

Nearby

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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.