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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Jackson, KY

July 31, 2024McCreary County, Wayne County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2024, 7:11 PM EDT for McCreary County, Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 103 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 2024, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2024, 8:54 PM EDT
In force: 103 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties McCreary County, KY, Wayne County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.0

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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 Jul 31, 5:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 5:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 4:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:18 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:30 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:44 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 6:50 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:54 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 6:58 PM EDT, 13 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
Jul 31, 9:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	42 min
Jul 31, 9:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Wayne	3 hr
Jul 31, 10:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	37 min
Jul 31, 10:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Wayne	3 hr
Jul 31, 10:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Wayne	3 hr
Jul 31, 11:18 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Jackson, Owsley	3 hr
Jul 31, 11:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel	3 hr
Jul 31, 12:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox	28 min
Jul 31, 12:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox	2 hr
Jul 31, 4:16 PM EDT	Flood Watch	JKL	Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Harlan, Jackson and 13 more	55 hr
Jul 31, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Powell	25 min
Jul 31, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	46 min
Jul 31, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Rockcastle	23 min
Jul 31, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	32 min
Jul 31, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Lee, Menifee, Owsley, Powell, Wolfe	27 min
Jul 31, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	30 min
Jul 31, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	34 min
Jul 31, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox	31 min
Jul 31, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Perry	51 min
Jul 31, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin	25 min
Jul 31, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Whitley	43 min
Jul 31, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Magoffin, Perry and 1 more	32 min
Jul 31, 7:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Knox	3 hr
Jul 31, 7:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Whitley	3 hr
Jul 31, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike	46 min
Jul 31, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike	34 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.