Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 27, 1994, 7:47 PM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 7:47 PM EST (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1994, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Owsley County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJKL 280047 FFWJKL KYC013-025-051-071-095-109-119-121-131-133-153-189-193-195-280700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 747 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION S... IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY ...BELL COUNTY...BREATHITT COUNTY...CLAY COUNTY...FLOYD COUNTY ...HARLAN COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY...KNOTT COUNTY...KNOX COUNTY ...LESLIE COUNTY...LETCHER COUNTY...MAGOFFIN COUNTY...OWSLEY COUNTY ...PERRY COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY AT 745 PM...RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WITH CREEKS AND STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN MANY COUNTIES. CREEKS IN JACKSON AND OWSLEY COUNTIES WILL EXCEED THEIR BANKS THIS EVENING AS HEAVIER RAIN MOVES IN AND THE PREVIOUS WARNED COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING THROUGH 2 AM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMAnLL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. WAIDLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 7:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 7:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Pike | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 7:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 12:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Elliott | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Leslie, Perry | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Jackson, Owsley | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Magoffin, Pike | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Martin | 3 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.