Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Watches in 2017
Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at Jun 18, 2017, 3:23 PM EDT for 22 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jun 19, 2017, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2017, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 19, 2017, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2017, 3:59 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Flood severity
- None
All 22 counties
Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 950 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Rowan | 24 min |
| Jun 18, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 28 min |
| Jun 18, 5:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Estill, Fleming, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery and 1 more | 25 min |
| Jun 18, 7:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 3 hr |
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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.