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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood watch at Jun 26, 2018, 4:21 AM EDT for 24 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jun 26, 2018, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2018, 4:21 AM EDT (08:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 26, 2018, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2018, 9:22 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Flood severity
- None
All 24 counties
Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd 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, Magoffin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 964 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 26, 2:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 26, 8:21 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery | 114 min |
| Jun 26, 8:24 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Powell, Wolfe | 113 min |
| Jun 26, 9:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Perry | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 10:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 10:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan, Knott, Letcher, Perry | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 10:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Powell, Wolfe | 119 min |
| Jun 26, 10:57 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 1:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 1:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Powell | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knox | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Whitley | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 3:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Harlan, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 4:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Leslie and 4 more | 119 min |
| Jun 26, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Lee, Wolfe | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 6:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Jackson | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 6:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 117 min |
| Jun 26, 6:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Whitley | 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.