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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2026, 6:26 PM EDT for Jackson County, Laurel County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 109 min. 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 7, 2026, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2026, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 109 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Jackson County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 6, 8:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Laurel | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:20 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 23 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 112 min |
| Jul 7, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Owsley | 20 min |
| Jul 7, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Jackson | 16 min |
| Jul 7, 5:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Rockcastle | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Rockcastle | 23 min |
| Jul 7, 5:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Owsley | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Rockcastle | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski | 75 min |
| Jul 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knott, Letcher, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 7:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 116 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.