Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1995, 3:10 AM EDT for Knox County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1995, 3:10 AM EDT (07:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1995, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Knox County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJKL 150710 FFWJKL KYC071-119-121-150915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 310 AM EDT MON MAY 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION S... IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY ...SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY...KNOTT COUNTY...EASTERN KNOX COUNTY AT 305 AM...HEAVY RAINS HAD PRODUCED NEAR 1 INCH OF RAIN SINCE 2 AM IN EAST KNOX...KNOTT AND SOUTH FLOYD COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE UPSTREAM ALONG THE VIRGINIA BORDER MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL CAUSE SOME RIVERS AND CREEKS TO FURTHER RISE AND FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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 SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. KH
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 14, 11:47 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
KYZ069-086>087-106-108>117-150800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1145 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY EXCLUDING PIKE...HARLAN AND LETCHER COUNTIES. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WERE NEAR IRVINE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH AND WILL REACH LEE AND WOLFE COUNTIES BY 1215 AM. OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE UPSTREAM IN SOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY AND WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA BETWEEN 2 AND 4 AM. LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE. ALSO...DUE TO THE 1 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN THAT FELL THIS WEEKEND... ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUNOFF A SUPER SATURATED GROUND. THIS COULD EASILY CAUSE CREEKS AND STREAMS TO FLOOD ROADS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. RIVER FLOODING IS ALREADY REPORTED ON PARTS OF THE LICKING AND CUMBERLAND RIVERS. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AREA...MONITOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS POTERNTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. HUETTL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay | 119 min |
| May 15, 2:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 59 min |
| May 15, 3:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott | 2 hr |
Nearby
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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.