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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2026, 4:16 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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 15, 2026, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 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 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 15, 3:17 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 3:17 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 1:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 15, 2:45 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | JKL | Wayne | 17 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 1:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Magoffin | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Morgan | 44 min |
| Aug 15, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe | 24 min |
| Aug 15, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Johnson | 46 min |
| Aug 15, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Rowan | 43 min |
| Aug 15, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Martin, Pike | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 3:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Elliott | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 38 min |
| Aug 15, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 26 min |
| Aug 15, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Perry | 50 min |
| Aug 15, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Rowan | 33 min |
| Aug 15, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath | 32 min |
| Aug 15, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Nicholas | 32 min |
| Aug 15, 5:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 8 min |
| Aug 15, 5:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Montgomery | 23 min |
| Aug 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath | 29 min |
| Aug 15, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Montgomery | 28 min |
| Aug 15, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Montgomery, Powell | 25 min |
| Aug 15, 6:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 107 min |
| Aug 15, 6:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Montgomery | 116 min |
| Aug 15, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Powell | 34 min |
| Aug 15, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell and 1 more | 33 min |
| Aug 15, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Lee | 23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.