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Flash Flood Warning 81, NWS Jackson, KY

September 4, 2022Bath County, Montgomery County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2022, 4:10 PM EDT for Bath County, Montgomery County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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: Sep 4, 2022, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Sep 4, 2022, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bath County, KY, Montgomery County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 4, 3:35 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 3:35 PM EDT, 35 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
Sep 3, 8:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Martin	119 min
Sep 3, 11:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming	4 hr
Sep 4, 12:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming	3 hr
Sep 4, 4:11 AM EDT	Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	43 hr
Sep 4, 5:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan, Wolfe	3 hr
Sep 4, 4:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Knott, Perry	113 min
Sep 4, 4:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin	2 hr
Sep 4, 5:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin	116 min
Sep 4, 5:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Knox	117 min
Sep 4, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Elliott, Morgan	18 min
Sep 4, 5:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Perry	3 hr
Sep 4, 5:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Elliott, Morgan	3 hr
Sep 4, 6:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Leslie	119 min
Sep 4, 6:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Owsley	115 min
Sep 4, 6:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell	112 min
Sep 4, 6:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Menifee	2 hr
Sep 4, 6:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Leslie	4 hr
Sep 4, 7:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knott	4 hr
Sep 4, 7:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Knox	2 hr
Sep 4, 7:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox	3 hr
Sep 4, 7:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Leslie	2 hr

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.