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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 23, 2026, 6:28 PM EDT for Bell County, Clay County, Knox 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
- Sep 23, 2026, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2026, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Knox County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Sep 23, 5:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 5:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 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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| Sep 23, 2:49 AM EDT | Flood Watch | JKL | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 14 more | 19 hr |
| Sep 23, 2:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 3:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 3:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher | 6 hr |
| Sep 23, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knott, Letcher, Perry | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 4:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 10 min |
| Sep 23, 4:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Letcher | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd | 46 min |
| Sep 23, 5:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Letcher | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 11 min |
| Sep 23, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie, Perry | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 6:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Martin | 35 min |
| Sep 23, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 41 min |
| Sep 23, 6:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox | 20 min |
| Sep 23, 6:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Knox | 14 min |
| Sep 23, 6:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Martin | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Martin | 34 min |
| Sep 23, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Breathitt | 45 min |
| Sep 23, 6:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox | 3 hr |
| Sep 23, 6:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox | 2 hr |
| Sep 23, 7:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Leslie | 2 hr |
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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.