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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Jackson, KY

July 20, 2002Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2002, 6:18 AM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 2002, 6:18 AM EDT (10:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2002, 9:15 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1089 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KJKL 201018
FFWJKL
KYC195-201315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
615 AM EDT SAT JUL 20 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY

* UNTIL 915 AM EDT

* AT 611 AM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FLASH FLOOD IN THE FREEBURN  
  AND MCCARR AREAS OF PIKE COUNTY AND ALONG BLACBERRY CREEK...OR     
  ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF PIKEVILLE. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS       
  SLOWLY PULLING AWAY TO THE EAST.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM 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.

LAT...LON 3750 8227 3733 8235 3717 8201 3746 8188

GREIF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 8:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Knott	3 hr
Jul 20, 9:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Magoffin	3 hr
Jul 20, 10:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski	3 hr
Jul 20, 10:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski	3 hr
Jul 20, 3:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Wayne	119 min
Jul 20, 5:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Laurel	3 hr

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.