Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 1995, 3:22 PM EDT for Harlan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1995, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harlan County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 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 131922 FFWJKL KYC051-095-131-132130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 322 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION S... IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY ...CLAY COUNTY...HARLAN COUNTY...LESLIE COUNTY ...AT 315 PM...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ON NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY...FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE BURNING SPRINGS AREA OF CLAY COUNTY ABOUT 34 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAZARD. DES PERSONNEL REPORTED THAT FLOODING WAS OCCURING IN SOUTHERN LESLIE COUNTY SOUTH OF HYDEN...ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF HAZARD NEAR THE HARLAN COUNTY LINE. VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. 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 CR OSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. &
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 13, 2:49 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
KYZ086>088-106-109-112>118-132100- BELL-BREATHITT-CLAY-HARLAN-JACKSON-KNOTT-KNOX-LEE-LESLIE-LETCHER- MAGOFFIN-MORGAN-OWSLEY-PERRY-WOLFE- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 248 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM...FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY EXCLUDING FLOYD AND PIKE COUNTIES. AT 240 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF MIDDLESBORO AND NEAR MIDDLESBORO IN SOUTHEAST BELL COUNTY. ANOTHER AREA STRETCHED FROM 35 MILES WEST TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON...OR ALONG AND WEST OF AN IRVINE TO MANCHESTER LINE. YET ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAZARD IN SOUTHEAST LETCHER COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHEAST BELL...WEST BREATHITT...NORTH CLAY...JACKSON...LEE... NORTH PERRY...SOUTHEAST LETCHER AND WOLFE COUNTIES THROUGH 345 PM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS OF OVER 1 INCH PER HOUR. IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORM GET INSIDE A SAFE SHELTER AND AVOID ELECTRICAL DEVICES AND TELEPHONE EXCEPT IN AN EMERGENCY. ALSO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED AND NEVER CjROSS ROADS COVERED BY FLOWING WATER. KH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson | 34 min |
| May 13, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox | 34 min |
| May 13, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Leslie | 30 min |
| May 13, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Owsley | 30 min |
| May 13, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Leslie, Perry | 31 min |
| May 13, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Owsley | 31 min |
| May 13, 1:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay | 2 hr |
| May 13, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan, Leslie, Letcher | 36 min |
| May 13, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 36 min |
| May 13, 3:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 2 hr |
| May 13, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Pike | 35 min |
| May 13, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 21 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.