Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2003, 1:03 PM EDT for Pulaski 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
- Jun 16, 2003, 1:03 PM EDT (17:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2003, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pulaski County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KJKL 161705
FFWJKL
KYC199-162000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
103 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PULASKI COUNTY
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
* AT 101 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN FROM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODSTOCK TO NEAR STAB...OR FROM
13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT VERNON TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
SOMERSET.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO
TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES.
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 3687 8459 3698 8469 3696 8478 3705 8492
3712 8492 3735 8457 3717 8431 3710 8430
3707 8434 3700 8433 3696 8437 3695 8442
$$
MCLANE2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KJKL 161808
FFSJKL
KYC199-161900-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
203 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PULASKI COUNTY...
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
* AT 203 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS FROM VALLEY OAK TO SOMERSET...OR FROM 10 MILES SOUTH
OF MOUNT VERNON TO SOMERSET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED IN THE BEE LICK AND BUCK CREEK AREAS
OF PULASKI COUNTY...WHERE AN ESTIMATED 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE
NOON.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND
STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO
TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
FLOWING WATERS BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...
ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.
IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.
LAT...LON 3687 8459 3698 8469 3696 8478 3705 8492
3712 8492 3735 8457 3717 8431 3710 8430
3707 8434 3700 8433 3696 8437 3695 8442
$$
MCLANE000 WGUS73 KJKL 162008 FFSJKL KYC065-109-199-162030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 406 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR ESTILL...JACKSON...AND PULASKI COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 4 PM EDT... AS OF 4 PM EDT THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING IN ESTILL...JACKSON OR PULASKI COUNTIES. THE HEAVY RAIN THAT AFFECTED THESE COUNTIES EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON HAD COME TO AN END...BUT SOME LIGHT SHOWERS WILL LINGER INTO THE EARLY EVENING. $$ SBH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Owsley | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Perry | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Owsley | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Menifee, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Leslie | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Elliott | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Menifee, Montgomery | 2 hr |
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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.