Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 24, 2002, 5:53 AM EST for Pulaski 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
- Jan 24, 2002, 5:53 AM EST (10:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2002, 9:45 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:54 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 682 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KJKL 241053 FFWJKL KYC199-241445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 552 AM EST THU JAN 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PULASKI COUNTY * UNTIL 945 AM EST * AT 544 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THREE QUARTERS TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY. THIS RAINFALL IS ASSOCIATED WITH A LINE OF RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN KENTUCKY. UP TO AN INCH OF ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION CAN BE EXPECTED BEFORE RAIN TAPERS OFF LATER THIS MORNING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. 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. 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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN JACKSON KY. $$ MCLANE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 10:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knott, Knox, Leslie and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Powell | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:17 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Wayne | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 6:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Letcher | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 7:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:17 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Leslie | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 12:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Leslie | 102 min |
| Jan 24, 4:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, McCreary, Whitley | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Letcher | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 5:06 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Perry | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 5:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.