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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Jackson, KY

September 21, 2026Pike County, Kentucky

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2026-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 567 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2026-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 21, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLetcher25 min
Sep 21, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLetcher30 min
Sep 21, 3:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLHarlan37 min
Sep 21, 3:25 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLHarlan2 hr
Sep 21, 3:29 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLPike33 min
Sep 21, 3:35 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLLetcher34 min
Sep 21, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPike24 min
Sep 21, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLLaurel31 min
Sep 21, 4:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPike30 min
Sep 21, 4:16 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLPike119 min
Sep 21, 4:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPerry31 min
Sep 21, 4:46 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLWhitley119 min
Sep 21, 5:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPerry27 min
Sep 21, 5:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPerry37 min
Sep 21, 5:37 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJKLPerry113 min
Sep 21, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLOwsley24 min
Sep 21, 5:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLPerry35 min
Sep 21, 6:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLOwsley29 min
Sep 21, 7:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMartin30 min
Sep 21, 7:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMagoffin26 min
Sep 21, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJohnson, Magoffin, Morgan21 min
Sep 21, 7:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLBreathitt32 min
Sep 21, 7:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLJohnson37 min
Sep 21, 7:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLWayne34 min
Sep 21, 7:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWayne32 min
Sep 21, 7:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJKLMartin36 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.