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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Jackson, KY

May 15, 1996Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1996, 9:36 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 119 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, 9:36 PM EDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1996, 11:35 PM EDT
In force: 119 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, 1.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJKL 160137
FFWJKL
KYC195-160335-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
936 PM EDT WED MAY 15 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1135 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY

   ...EASTERN PIKE
 
AT 930 PM DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM SOUTH WILLAMSON AND VARNEY SOUTH ACROSS THE
COUNTY TO ELKHORN CITY AND STEELE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST
AND WILL AFFECT AREAS OF THE COUNTY THAT HAVE BEEN RECEIVING STEADY
RAIN OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE EARLIER WARNINGS ISSUED FOR PIKE COUNTY.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT
IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING.

BALLARD

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, 2 hours 44 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.

HUETTL

Local storm report, May 15, 7:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 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.
HUETTL

Local storm report, May 15, 8:37 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
835 PM EDT WED MAY 15 1996

TIME EST      .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE          ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

1930 EDT         WRIGLEY                KY    AROUND A FOOT OF WATER
5/15/96          MORGAN                       COVERED A SECTION OF
                                              ROUTE 711. PUBLIC
                                              REPORT VIA LOCAL DEPUTY.

HUETTL

Local storm report, May 15, 9:18 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
915 PM EDT WED MAY 15 1996

TIME EST      .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE          ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

2110 EDT         META                   KY    JOHNS CREEK OVERFLOWING
5/15/96          MORGAN                       BANKS INTO YARD OF JOHN
                                              CREEK ELEMENTARY. PIKE
                                  F            COUNTY SPOTTER REPORT.

HUETTL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 8:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	102 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.