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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1998, 8:22 PM EDT for Martin County, Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1998, 8:22 PM EDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 12:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Martin County, KY, Pike County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJKL 230024 FFWJKL KYC095-133-159-195-230425- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 822 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HARLAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY. LETCHER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY. MARTIN COUNTY IN EASTERN KENTUCKY. PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY. * UNTIL 1225 AM EDT. * AT 820 PM EDT... SPOTTERS INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MOST OF EASTERN KENTUCKY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS AREAS ALONG AND NEAR THE VIRGINIA BORDER. RAINFALL RATES MAY APPROACH 2 INCHES IN ONE HOUR IN A FEW PLACES. THIS WILL CAUSE CREEKS TO RISE QUICKLY AND THEY WILL LIKELY OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. IT WILL ALSO CREATE WATER COVERED ROADS. DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. .END/INGRAM &
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.
NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 22, 2:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 240 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998 OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVING SOUTH THROUGH NE KY INITIATING CONVECTION OVER CLARK/MONTGOMERY COUNTY. ANOTHER BOUNDARY SHOWING UP ON IR IN THE SE MTNS WITH WEAKER SHOWERS POPPING UP. THE HEAVY DUTY STUFF REMAINS WITH MCD MOVING INTO CNTL/SRN INDIANA. CONVECTION FURTHER SOUTH INTO SRN IL APPEARS TO HAVE WEAKENED. THE OTHER WX STORY IS THE HOT TEMPS. CUMBERLAND VLY READINGS ALREADY AROUND 90 DEGREES AT 18Z. FOR THE SHORT TERM...WIDELY SCATTERD TSTMS TO CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING AS ATMOSPHERE REMAINS UNSTABLE WITH LIS OF -5 TO -9. THESE STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVERS GIVEN WINDS UP TO 700 MB AT 20 KNOTS OR LESS. NEXT PROBLEM IS WITH MCS. ETA SHOWS THE ASSOCIATED S/W WEAKENING AS IT MOVES EAST ACRS UPPER OH VLY. LOOKING AT DYNAMICS AND INSTABILITY PARAMETERS...APPEARS NRN HALF OF CWA WILL SEE BEST CHANCE OF ANY TSTMS...50 POPS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT WITH 30 POPS SOUTH IN CUMBERLAND VLY. ETA IS SHOWING BEST LIFT COMING IN BETWEEN 06-12Z TONIGHT. THINK CHC POPS IN ORDER FOR TUESDAY MORNING FOR ERN KY AS STILL SOME UVM AROUND. AFTER THIS S/W RIDES THROUGH...5H RIDGE BUILDS AND PLENTY OF HOT AND HUMID WX CAN BE EXPECTED WITH LOW CHANCE OF PRECIP ON TUESDAY GIVEN K INDICES FALLING BELOW 20. NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN COMES TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WED AS WM FNT FROM NEXT SYS POKES INTO WRN KY WITH SOME LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH IT. AS FOR TEMPS...SEEMS FWC/FAN SOMEWHAT SIMILAR WITH FWC A LITTLE HOTTER ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY FOR LOZ. GENERALLY FOLLOWED NGM ON POPS. THE FOLLOWING GUIDANCE IS FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS CAN BE FOUND IN THE PRODUCT SDFZFPKY. JKL 71/89/67/91 4302 LOZ 68/92/66/93 3202 WHP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan, Letcher | 4 hr |
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.