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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Jackson, KY

March 28, 19945 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 28, 1994, 1:56 AM EST for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1994, 1:56 AM EST (06:56 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1994, 8:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Floyd County, KY, Knott County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Pike County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1994-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1994-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJKL 280702 COR
FFWJKL
KYC013-025-051-071-095-109-119-121-131-133-153-189-193-195-281300-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TIMES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
156 AM EST MON MAR 28 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 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 150 AM EST...RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES CONTINUED ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHEAST
KENTUCKY WITH CREEKS AND STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN MANY COUNTIES.

RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNRISE AND COMBINED WITH
RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE FLOODING IN THE WARNED
COUNTIES THROUGH 800 AM EST.

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.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

...CORRECTED FOR TIMES...
SMITH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry6 hr
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBreathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley6 hr
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLKnox6 hr
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLFloyd, Knott, Pike6 hr
Mar 27, 7:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMagoffin6 hr
Mar 28, 12:33 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLElliott6 hr
Mar 28, 1:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLLawrence6 hr
Mar 28, 1:56 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBell, Clay, Harlan, Leslie, Perry6 hr
Mar 28, 1:56 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBreathitt, Jackson, Owsley6 hr
Mar 28, 1:56 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLKnox6 hr
Mar 28, 2:55 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLJohnson6 hr
Mar 28, 3:40 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMartin3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994

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.