Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1996, 8:18 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 102 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1996, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 102 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJKL 160020 COR FFWJKL KYC195-160200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 818 PM EDT WED MAY 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY ...SOUTHERN PIKE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING ACROSS SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL FALL NEAR THE TOWNS OF VIRGIE...REGINA AND LOOKOUT. WITH THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING INCREASING...THE SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A FLASH FLOOD WARNING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. RAB/SES COR FOR EXPIRATION TIME
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
Local storm report, May 15, 6:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
650 PM EDT WED MAY 15 1996
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1836 EDT VARNEY KY ROUTE 881 UNDER WATER
5/15/96 PIKE NEAR VARNEY ELEMENTARY
ABOUT 13 MILES NE OF
PIKEVILLE. REPORTED BY
VARNEY FIRE DEPARTMENT.
HUETTLLocal storm report, May 15, 7:36 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
735 PM EDT WED MAY 15 1996
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1845 EDT META KY JOHNS CREEK SPILLING
5/15/96 PIKE OVER PARTS OF ROUTE
194 BETWEEN META AND
GULNAR. REPORTED VIA
PIKE COUNTY SPOTTER.
1845 EDT GULNAR KY WATER OVERFLOWING INTO
5/15/96 PIKE MOUNTAIN PUBLINCK GOLF
2 COURSE BY JOHNS CREEK.
REPORTED VIA PIKE
COUNTY SPOTTER.
HUETTLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 9:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 119 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.