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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY

May 15, 2003Menifee County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 2003, 4:00 PM EDT for Menifee 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: May 15, 2003, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Menifee County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 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 152004
FFWJKL
KYC165-160000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
400 PM EDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MENIFEE COUNTY

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 357 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN FROM 3 MILES NORTH OF RATLITT TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  POMEROYTON...OR FROM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF FRENCHBURG TO 6 MILES    
  NORTH OF CAMPTON. AN AVERAGE OF ONE...TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES   
  OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1 PM.

AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TRACKING ACROSS THE REGION WILL 
PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES BY EARLY 
EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL TRACK OVER AREAS ALREADY SATURATED FROM 
EARLIER RAINS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS 
AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD 
ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE 
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS 
FLOWING WATERS BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE 
STALLS...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 3797 8379 3787 8370 3782 8355 3797 8344
          3806 8351

$$

MCLANE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KJKL 152147
FFSJKL
KYC069-125-165-197-152215-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
542 PM EDT THU MAY 15 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES...

FLEMING...LAUREL...MENIFEE...AND POWELL...

AT 530 PM HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO FLOODING WAS 
BEING REPORTED IN THE WARNED COUNTIES. HIGH WATER CAN BE EXPECTED 
THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING...HOWEVER NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS 
EXPECTED.

THE WARNING IN EFFECT FOR FLEMING...LAUREL...MENIFEE...AND POWELL 
COUNTIES IS THEREFORE CANCELLED.

$$

MCLANE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 10:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	63 min
May 15, 11:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	24 min
May 15, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	53 min
May 15, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Powell	32 min
May 15, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Powell	61 min
May 15, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson	42 min
May 15, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	25 min
May 15, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	50 min
May 15, 3:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Powell	3 hr
May 15, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Owsley	57 min
May 15, 3:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Jackson	3 hr
May 15, 3:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Laurel	4 hr
May 15, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	54 min
May 15, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary	57 min
May 15, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wayne	38 min
May 15, 4:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Fleming	4 hr
May 15, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	54 min
May 15, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	26 min
May 15, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox	44 min
May 15, 5:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Montgomery	3 hr

Nearby

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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.