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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2025, 4:57 PM EDT for Owsley 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
- Jun 15, 2025, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Owsley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 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 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 Jun 15, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 4:10 AM EDT, 12 hours 47 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Jackson KY 410 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-160815- Fleming-Montgomery-Bath-Rowan-Estill-Powell-Menifee-Rockcastle- Jackson-Pulaski-Laurel-Wayne-McCreary-Whitley-Knox-Bell-Harlan- Elliott-Morgan-Johnson-Wolfe-Magoffin-Floyd-Lee-Breathitt-Knott- Owsley-Perry-Clay-Leslie-Letcher-Martin-Pike- 410 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for a portion of eastern Kentucky. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Thunderstorms are possible today and tonight. Some of the storms this afternoon and into the evening could produce strong wind gusts as well as downpours capable of producing localized flash flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Thunderstorms are possible Monday through Saturday, especially during the afternoon and evening hours. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. GREIF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 10:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Morgan | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Elliott | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Owsley | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 5:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley | 109 min |
| Jun 15, 5:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Rowan | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 6:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rowan | 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.