Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 9:30 AM EST (14:30 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 3:00 PM EST

In force

6 hr

Issued by

NWS Jackson, KY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, KY, Powell County, KY

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KJKL 011431
FFWJKL
KYC011-063-153-165-173-175-197-205-012000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 3PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN EASTERN KENTUCKY...
   ...BATH
   ...ELLIOTT
   ...MAGOFFIN
   ...MENIFEE
   ...MONTGOMERY
   ...MORGAN
   ...POWELL
   ...ROWAN

 
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES HAVE BEEN COMMON ACROSS
NORTHEAST KENTUCKY THIS MORNING. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES ANOTHER INCH
OF RAIN COULD FALL BY NOON FURTHER AGGRAVATING THE FLOODING SITUATION.
THE GROUND IS SATURATED AND ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL KEEP MANY STREAMS AND
CREEKS AT OR ABOVE BANKFULL INTO EARLY AFTERNOON. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD
PRONE AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

THIS EXTENDS THE WARNINGS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
RO:ADWAY.  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.


SES

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 1, 1:22 AM EST, 8 hours 8 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.