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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Jackson, KY

April 4, 20256 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 2025, 4:26 AM EDT for 6 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 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: Apr 4, 2025, 4:26 AM EDT (08:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2025, 10:19 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Estill County, KY, Lee County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Powell County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 4, 4:22 AM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 4:22 AM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 4, 3:37 AM EDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 10:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 11:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 12:08 AM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 12:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 12:31 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 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
Apr 3, 8:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Menifee, Powell	34 min
Apr 3, 9:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott, Morgan	27 min
Apr 3, 9:24 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Owsley	3 hr
Apr 4, 12:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	JKL	Owsley	12 hr
Apr 4, 1:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Rowan	7 hr
Apr 4, 2:18 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Estill, Johnson, Lee, Menifee and 5 more	6 hr
Apr 4, 3:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	4 hr
Apr 4, 4:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	3 hr
Apr 4, 4:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle and 1 more	4 hr
Apr 4, 4:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan and 1 more	4 hr
Apr 4, 4:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Lee, Wolfe	33 min
Apr 4, 5:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle, Wolfe	6 hr
Apr 4, 5:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Martin, Pike	31 min
Apr 4, 6:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Martin and 2 more	4 hr
Apr 4, 6:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Lee, Magoffin and 5 more	2 hr
Apr 4, 7:08 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	11 hr
Apr 4, 7:11 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	11 hr
Apr 4, 7:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	10 hr
Apr 4, 8:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Martin, Pike	6 hr
Apr 4, 8:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Owsley	6 hr
Apr 4, 8:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd	46 min
Apr 4, 8:56 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Jackson, Owsley, Pulaski, Rockcastle	6 hr
Apr 4, 9:21 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Perry	6 hr
Apr 4, 10:04 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Martin and 2 more	8 hr
Apr 4, 10:19 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee, Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe	8 hr
Apr 4, 11:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle, Wolfe	7 hr
Apr 4, 11:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry, Pike	3 hr
Apr 4, 12:43 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Owsley	8 hr
Apr 4, 2:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Martin, Pike	4 hr
Apr 4, 2:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Owsley	4 hr
Apr 4, 2:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Jackson, Pulaski, Rockcastle	4 hr
Apr 4, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	24 min
Apr 4, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox, Whitley	32 min
Apr 4, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Knox, Whitley	28 min
Apr 4, 3:40 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	JKL	Magoffin	10 hr
Apr 4, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Leslie	28 min
Apr 4, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry	25 min
Apr 4, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Leslie	37 min
Apr 4, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Harlan, Leslie, Perry	34 min
Apr 4, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	33 min
Apr 4, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Whitley	33 min
Apr 4, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	47 min
Apr 4, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher, Perry	32 min
Apr 4, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski	32 min
Apr 4, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Laurel	31 min
Apr 4, 5:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and 3 more	15 hr
Apr 4, 5:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Estill, Floyd, Jackson, Johnson, Knott and 10 more	15 hr
Apr 4, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knott	35 min
Apr 4, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rockcastle	38 min
Apr 4, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill	35 min
Apr 4, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	23 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.