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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Jackson, KY

February 15, 2003Montgomery County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 2003, 3:41 PM EST for Montgomery 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
Feb 15, 2003, 3:41 PM EST (20:41 UTC)
Expired
Feb 15, 2003, 7:45 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2003-02-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2003-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
230 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 152047
FFWJKL
KYC173-160045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
341 PM EST SAT FEB 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

* UNTIL 745 PM EST.


AT 345 PM...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE REGION. 
RADAR INDICATES THAT AROUND ONE HALF OF AN INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN 
IN THE PAST HOUR OVER SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. ANY ADDITIONAL 
RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING DUE TO SATURATED GROUND.

MOUNT STERLING POLICE REPORTED THAT BETWEEN ONE TO TWO FEET OF WATER 
WAS FLOWING OVER HINKSTON PIKE IN MOUNT STERLING. AT 
JEFFERSONVILLE...ABOUT ONE FOOT OF WATER WAS FLOWING OVER HIGHWAY 
460 NEAR THE INTERSECTION WITH HIGHWAY 599.

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 FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
JACKSON KY.

LAT...LON 3813 8388 3801 8376 3793 8378 3791 8388
          3797 8400

$$

PELTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 14, 11:11 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLLaurel, Whitley6 hr
Feb 15, 6:55 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMorgan4 hr
Feb 15, 8:12 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLJohnson, Magoffin, Martin, Menifee, Powell, Wolfe6 hr
Feb 15, 9:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLFloyd, Pike4 hr
Feb 15, 10:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBreathitt, Knott, Lee, Owsley, Perry3 hr
Feb 15, 11:17 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBell, Clay, Estill, Harlan, Jackson, Knox and 5 more3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.