Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2000, 6:49 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2000, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 262248 FFWRLX KYC127-270045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 649 PM EDT WED JUL 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 845 PM EDT... * AT 641 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF BLAINE...NEAR TERRYVILLE. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * SOME STREAMS THAT MAY BE EFFECTED INCLUDE... LEFT FORK OF BLAINE CREEK... LEWIS CREEK... <<CALL TO ACTION>> 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 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. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. $$ LAT...LON 3801 8293 3808 8293 3801 8302 3797 8301
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.