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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Jackson, KY

August 5, 2026Pulaski County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2026, 5:44 PM EDT for Pulaski 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
Aug 5, 2026, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2026, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Pulaski County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 211 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2026-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1201 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2026-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 1:37 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLFleming113 min
Aug 5, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLFleming19 min
Aug 5, 3:06 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLFleming114 min
Aug 5, 5:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPulaski24 min
Aug 5, 5:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLRockcastle29 min
Aug 5, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle34 min
Aug 5, 5:32 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLPulaski12 min
Aug 5, 5:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLee, Owsley35 min
Aug 5, 5:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJackson34 min
Aug 5, 5:59 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLJackson, Rockcastle117 min
Aug 5, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLee, Owsley26 min
Aug 5, 6:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPike29 min
Aug 5, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMagoffin25 min
Aug 5, 6:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLee37 min
Aug 5, 6:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPike30 min
Aug 5, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLeslie24 min
Aug 5, 7:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBreathitt, Magoffin28 min
Aug 5, 7:04 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLPike3 hr
Aug 5, 7:09 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLClay, Knox3 hr
Aug 5, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPerry31 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.