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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY

May 21, 1996Leslie County, Perry County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 21, 1996, 6:48 PM EDT for Leslie County, Perry County, Kentucky. It was in force for 77 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 21, 1996, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 1996, 8:05 PM EDT
In force
77 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Leslie County, KY, Perry County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 316 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 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 212249
FFWJKL
KYC131-193-220005-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
648 PM EDT TUE MAY 21 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY

   ...SOUTHERN LESLIE
   ...SOUTHERN PERRY
 
AT 6:45 PM RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF PERRY AND LESLIE COUNTIES. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO
2 INCHES HAVE FALLEN ACROSS THESE AREAS...SO ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL
ONLY ADD TO THE FLOODING PROBLEM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT
THE AREA AFTER 8 PM.
 
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

MSL/SES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 6:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLLetcher118 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.