Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Jackson, KY

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 12:57 PM EST (17:57 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 3:00 PM EST

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Jackson, KY

Area

Whole counties

County Fleming County, KY

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KJKL 011758
FFWJKL
KYC069-012000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1257 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY

   ...FLEMING
 
RADAR ESTIMATES ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF
FLEMING COUNTY. THE COUNTY DISPATCH OFFICE REPORTS THAT HIGHWAY 560
BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF EWING AND COWAN IS COVERED WITH 2 FEET OF WATER.
STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE NEAR BANKFULL AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN THIS
AFTERNOON WILL CAUSE MORE FLASH FLOODING.
 
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT ATTEM\PT 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.

SES/WHP

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 1, 9:58 AM EST, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1000 AM EST SAT MAR 1 1997

MCS CAUSING LOTS OF FLOODING PROBLEMS ACRS NRN SECTIONS OF THE CWA.
FFW ONGOING FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES WITH TRAINING OCCURRING. FORECAST
(AND ESP FFA) LOOKS GOOD. ONLY PROBLEM WILL BE TEMPS...PLENTY OF CLDS
AND SHRA/TSRA WILL KEEP US FROM GETTING AS WARM AS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.
WOULD KNOCK TEMPS DOWN TO 70-75.

JKL 70/61/65 +88
LOZ 71/61/65 +88

SES

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.