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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Jackson, KY

August 14, 2026Harlan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2026, 6:58 PM EDT for Harlan 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 14, 2026, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2026, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Harlan County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 490 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 14, 5:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 5:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 4:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 6:40 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Estill	30 min
Aug 13, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knott	25 min
Aug 13, 8:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Magoffin, Wolfe	3 hr
Aug 13, 8:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming	11 min
Aug 13, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Floyd	26 min
Aug 13, 8:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	2 hr
Aug 13, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knott	29 min
Aug 13, 8:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Perry	6 min
Aug 13, 8:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Perry	4 hr
Aug 13, 8:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Rowan	2 hr
Aug 13, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Johnson	26 min
Aug 13, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Leslie, Letcher, Perry	34 min
Aug 13, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Harlan, Leslie, Letcher	39 min
Aug 13, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	46 min
Aug 13, 9:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Perry	3 hr
Aug 13, 9:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry, Pike	3 hr
Aug 13, 9:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	JKL	Knott	111 min
Aug 13, 10:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Harlan, Leslie, Letcher	3 hr
Aug 13, 11:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	35 min
Aug 13, 11:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Whitley	48 min
Aug 14, 12:13 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	2 hr
Aug 14, 12:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell	32 min
Aug 14, 12:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell	2 hr
Aug 14, 12:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott	6 hr
Aug 14, 12:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry, Pike	3 hr
Aug 14, 3:13 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Letcher	3 hr
Aug 14, 3:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry, Pike	3 hr
Aug 14, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	27 min
Aug 14, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rockcastle	27 min
Aug 14, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	31 min
Aug 14, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	32 min
Aug 14, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pike	33 min
Aug 14, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	27 min
Aug 14, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Wayne	24 min
Aug 14, 5:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Pike	112 min
Aug 14, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Letcher	35 min
Aug 14, 6:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Harlan	9 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.