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Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Jackson, KY

July 23, 2002Martin County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 2002, 8:23 PM EDT for Martin 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2002, 8:23 PM EDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2002, 12:15 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Martin County, KY

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KJKL 240023
FFWJKL
KYC159-240415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
816 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MARTIN COUNTY

* UNTIL 1215 AM EDT

* AT 810 PM EDT...THE MARTIN COUNTY DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES 
REPORTED THAT FLASH FLOODING WAS OBSERVED JUST AFTER 7 PM ON ROUTE 
1714 NEXT TO PIGEON ROOST CREEK. SEVEN TO EIGHT INCHES OF WATER WAS 
REPORTED FLOWING OVER THE ROAD 3 TO 4 MILES FROM ROUTE 2032...AND 
THE WATER LEVEL WAS STILL RISING. 

ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAIN HAS LEFT THE AREA...RUNOFF FROM PREVIOUS 
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE NIGHT

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 3775 8267 3764 8248 3796 8188 3829 8242

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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.