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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Jackson, KY

July 12, 2026Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2026, 4:36 PM EDT for Pike 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 12, 2026, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Pike County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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 11, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary, Wayne	55 min
Jul 11, 9:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Wayne	2 hr
Jul 11, 11:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Jackson, Owsley, Perry	3 hr
Jul 11, 11:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Jackson, Rockcastle	3 hr
Jul 12, 1:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Owsley	5 hr
Jul 12, 4:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pulaski	3 hr
Jul 12, 5:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knox, Whitley	3 hr
Jul 12, 8:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming	2 hr
Jul 12, 10:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Rowan	2 hr
Jul 12, 10:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Rockcastle	110 min
Jul 12, 11:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	3 hr
Jul 12, 12:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Rockcastle	116 min
Jul 12, 1:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Owsley, Perry	2 hr
Jul 12, 1:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Rowan	115 min
Jul 12, 1:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Leslie, Perry	2 hr
Jul 12, 2:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	118 min
Jul 12, 2:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Leslie, Perry	2 hr
Jul 12, 3:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	2 hr
Jul 12, 3:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pike	3 hr
Jul 12, 3:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan	3 hr
Jul 12, 4:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Magoffin	114 min
Jul 12, 4:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Pike	3 hr
Jul 12, 4:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan, Pike, Wolfe	2 hr
Jul 12, 5:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel	115 min
Jul 12, 5:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	118 min
Jul 12, 5:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Wolfe	113 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Morgan, Rowan	118 min
Jul 12, 6:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary	2 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.