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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 2026, 4:02 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 118 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
- Sep 21, 2026, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- 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 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 258 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Harlan | 37 min |
| Sep 21, 3:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 3:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 3:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Letcher | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 24 min |
| Sep 21, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pike | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 4:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Pike | 119 min |
| Sep 21, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Perry | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 4:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Whitley | 119 min |
| Sep 21, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Perry | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Perry | 37 min |
| Sep 21, 5:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Perry | 113 min |
| Sep 21, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Owsley | 24 min |
| Sep 21, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Perry | 35 min |
| Sep 21, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Owsley | 29 min |
| Sep 21, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Magoffin | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan | 21 min |
| Sep 21, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt | 32 min |
| Sep 21, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Johnson | 37 min |
| Sep 21, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Wayne | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 32 min |
| Sep 21, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 36 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.