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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 2025, 1:20 AM EDT for Pulaski County, Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 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
- Mar 16, 2025, 1:20 AM EDT (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Pulaski County, KY, Wayne County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 399 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
- 190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 9:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Knox | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 9:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie | 48 min |
| Mar 15, 11:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, McCreary and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:01 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee, Owsley and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Wayne | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 1:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 39 min |
| Mar 16, 1:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 2:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 3:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Laurel, McCreary, Powell, Rockcastle | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 4:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:11 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee, Menifee, Powell | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 4:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson, Lee, Menifee, Owsley, Rowan, Wolfe | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 5:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Owsley | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 5:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 6:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Knox, Lee, Menifee, Morgan, Owsley and 2 more | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 7:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Magoffin, Morgan, Owsley and 1 more | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 7:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Powell, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:58 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | JKL | Bell | 12 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:58 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 30 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:58 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | JKL | Whitley | 47 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Fleming | 28 min |
| Mar 16, 9:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 9:43 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay | 13 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 10:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 12:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Rockcastle | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill | 27 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.