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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Jackson, KY

July 19, 2026Wayne County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2026, 5:40 PM EDT for Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 110 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 19, 2026, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2026, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 110 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Wayne County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 1664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 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 19, 3:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	67 min
Jul 19, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox	28 min
Jul 19, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	31 min
Jul 19, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	38 min
Jul 19, 5:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Wayne	2 hr
Jul 19, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	28 min
Jul 19, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	25 min
Jul 19, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	25 min
Jul 19, 6:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	66 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.