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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Jackson, KY

July 28, 2025Knox County, Laurel County, Whitley County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2025, 9:13 PM EDT for Knox County, Laurel County, Whitley 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: Jul 28, 2025, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2025, 12:15 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Whitley County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 1859 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Knox	67 min
Jul 28, 9:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knox, Laurel, Whitley	4 hr
Jul 28, 9:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	42 min
Jul 28, 9:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Clay, Knox	40 min
Jul 28, 9:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel	6 hr
Jul 28, 9:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Laurel	4 hr
Jul 28, 10:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Montgomery, Powell	2 hr
Jul 28, 10:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rockcastle	46 min
Jul 28, 11:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	46 min

Nearby

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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.