Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 6:24 AM EST (11:24 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 9:00 AM EST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Jackson, KY

Area

Whole counties

County Morgan County, KY

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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KYC011-173-175-197-011425-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
624 AM EST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

   ...SOUTHERN BATH
   ...MONTGOMERY
   ...POWELL

IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY

   ...MORGAN
 
AT 615 AM...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED FROM POWELL AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
EAST TOWARD WEST VIRGINIA. BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM
MOUNT STERLING AND STANTON EAST TO WEST LIBERTY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS
UP TO 1 INCH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 9 AM.

NUMBEROUS ROADS WERE UNDER WATER IN MOUNT STERLING. THE COMMUNITIES OF
WYOMING AND SLADE VALLEY HAD HIGH WATER ON TO SOME ROADS IN BATH
COUNTY. WATER ALSO COVERED ROADS NEAR BRUSH CREEK IN POWELL COUNTY
NEAR HIGHWAY 82 AND 15. IN ADDITION WATER WAS APRROACHING HIGHWAY 7
NEAR WRIGLEY I2N NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY.
 
IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD
WATERS.  DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS
RISING.

HUETTL

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 1, 1:22 AM EST, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

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

STRONG STORMS MOVING INTO CWA WITH VILS AROUND 30...NEED ABOUT 40 FOR
SEVERE/LARGE HAIL. NO SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS THUS FAR TONIGHT.

EVERYONE TO GET SOME RAIN TONIGHT...WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR FLOOD
POTENTIAL AS DEWPOINTS REMAIN 55 TO 60.  SO FAR HEAVIEST RAINS OF 1 TO
2 INCHES JUST NW OF FA. TEMPERATURES AND POPS FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST
LOOK FINE...RECORD SETTDING HIGH TEMPERATURE DAY AHEAD.

WILL COORDINATED LATER IF NEED UPDATES OR CHANGES.

JKL 75/61/65 487
LOZ 75/61/65 487

HUETTL

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.