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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Jackson, KY

July 20, 20254 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2025, 6:56 PM EDT for 4 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: Jul 20, 2025, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2025, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Magoffin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary, Wayne	50 min
Jul 19, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	43 min
Jul 20, 1:56 AM EDT	Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 26 more	44 hr
Jul 20, 7:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan	3 hr
Jul 20, 9:14 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Menifee, Morgan	3 hr
Jul 20, 11:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Whitley	3 hr
Jul 20, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming	27 min
Jul 20, 3:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming	5 hr
Jul 20, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd, Knott	35 min
Jul 20, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	10 min
Jul 20, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	33 min
Jul 20, 4:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	5 hr
Jul 20, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	14 min
Jul 20, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	25 min
Jul 20, 4:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Pike	5 hr
Jul 20, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	30 min
Jul 20, 5:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	3 hr
Jul 20, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt	24 min
Jul 20, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	34 min
Jul 20, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Elliott	47 min
Jul 20, 5:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Martin, Pike	4 hr
Jul 20, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wolfe	44 min
Jul 20, 5:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	3 hr
Jul 20, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Morgan	51 min
Jul 20, 6:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	4 hr
Jul 20, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Magoffin, Wolfe	42 min
Jul 20, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd	38 min
Jul 20, 6:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe	97 min
Jul 20, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt	47 min
Jul 20, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Martin	44 min
Jul 20, 7:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Magoffin, Wolfe	3 hr
Jul 20, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt	40 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.