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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2025, 5:01 PM EDT for Bath County, Montgomery 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
- Jul 18, 2025, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2025, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 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 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 8:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 5 hr |
| Jul 17, 8:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knox, McCreary, Whitley | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 8:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley | 5 hr |
| Jul 17, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bell | 59 min |
| Jul 17, 8:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 52 min |
| Jul 17, 9:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 9:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 4 hr |
| Jul 17, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 52 min |
| Jul 17, 10:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Whitley | 43 min |
| Jul 17, 10:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 10:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 11:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Wayne | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 6:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Owsley | 34 min |
| Jul 18, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Owsley | 36 min |
| Jul 18, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 2:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 77 min |
| Jul 18, 2:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Jackson, Owsley, Perry | 71 min |
| Jul 18, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Owsley | 27 min |
| Jul 18, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Rockcastle | 37 min |
| Jul 18, 2:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | McCreary | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 4 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Clay | 37 min |
| Jul 18, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 3:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 4:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 4:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 58 min |
| Jul 18, 6:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Menifee, Montgomery, Powell | 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.