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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Jackson, KY

April 28, 2002Martin County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 2002, 6:05 PM EDT for Martin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2002, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Martin County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 101 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KJKL 282205
FFWJKL
KYC159-290000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
601 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MARTIN COUNTY

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 550 PM EDT...SHERIFFS DEPUTIES REPORTED 2 FEET OF WATER OVER 
PIGEON ROOST ROAD NEAR LAURA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED THROUGH 
THE AREA HAVE LEFT...BUT RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE 
EARLY THIS EVENING.

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.

LAT...LON 3779 8264 3771 8260 3773 8232 3782 8241

HAL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 6:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath	50 min
Apr 28, 6:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	34 min
Apr 28, 7:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	27 min
Apr 28, 7:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	31 min
Apr 28, 7:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Laurel	52 min
Apr 28, 7:49 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson	41 min
Apr 28, 8:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	41 min
Apr 28, 8:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	46 min
Apr 28, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	28 min
Apr 28, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Wolfe	34 min
Apr 28, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	30 min
Apr 28, 1:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Morgan	24 min
Apr 28, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	33 min
Apr 28, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	27 min
Apr 28, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	36 min
Apr 28, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Wayne	48 min
Apr 28, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	44 min
Apr 28, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	35 min
Apr 28, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	39 min
Apr 28, 1:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski	33 min
Apr 28, 1:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Martin	41 min
Apr 28, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin, Morgan	35 min
Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	45 min
Apr 28, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox	56 min
Apr 28, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	31 min
Apr 28, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	26 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Perry	28 min
Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	25 min
Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Owsley	25 min
Apr 28, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	28 min
Apr 28, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	32 min
Apr 28, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	27 min
Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	16 min
Apr 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	27 min
Apr 28, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary	36 min
Apr 28, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	30 min
Apr 28, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee	33 min
Apr 28, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	40 min
Apr 28, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	18 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2002 Every 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.