Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 18, 2000, 8:16 PM EST for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 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
- Feb 18, 2000, 8:16 PM EST (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2000, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elliott County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Powell County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 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 190120 FFWJKL KYC063-165-173-175-197-190145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 816 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MENIFEE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN KENTUCKY MORGAN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY POWELL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 100 AM EST * AT 814 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE REGION. AUTOMATED RAIN GUAGES REPORTED THAT MORE THAN HALF AN INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN AN HOUR ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTYR. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. RAB
1 follow-up statement
000 TTAA00 KJKL 190125 COR FFWJKL KYC063-165-173-175-197-190600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 816 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MENIFEE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN KENTUCKY MORGAN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY POWELL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 100 AM EST * AT 814 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE REGION. AUTOMATED RAIN GUAGES REPORTED THAT MORE THAN HALF AN INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN AN HOUR ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTI\ONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. RAB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 7:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 8:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 37 min |
| Feb 18, 8:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell, Wolfe | 22 min |
| Feb 18, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 30 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.