Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 2004, 10:27 AM EDT for Pulaski County, Wayne 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
- Aug 24, 2004, 10:27 AM EDT (14:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2004, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pulaski County, KY, Wayne County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:28 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 241433
FFWJKL
KYC199-231-241830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1027 AM EDT TUE AUG 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
PULASKI COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
WAYNE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 230 PM EDT.
* AT 1023 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
FALLING FROM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY AND
PULASKI COUNTY.
RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MILL SPRINGS AND STEUBENVILLE AREA OF
NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY AND IN THE BURNSIDE AND TATEVILLE AREA OF
SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI COUNTY AND OVER PARTS OF THE DANIEL BOONE
NATIONAL FOREST. SOME AFFECTED STREAMS INCLUDE BUCK CREEK IN
PULASKI COUNTY AS WELL AS OTHER SMALL TRIBUTARIES OF THE CUMBERLAND
RIVER IN WAYNE AND PULASKI COUNTIES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ROADS...FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS
OF CREEKS...STREAMS...AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH
FLOODING
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 FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
LAT...LON 3697 8492 3678 8468 3691 8454 3699 8436
3725 8438 3716 8463
$$
PELTON2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KJKL 241637 FFSJKL KYC199-231-241830- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1236 PM EDT TUE AUG 24 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PULASKI AND WAYNE COUNTIES IN EASTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 230 PM EDT... ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAIN IN THE AREA HAS ENDED FOR THE TIME BEING...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN IS STILL FALLING OVER A GOOD PORTION OF BOTH WAYNE AND PULASKI COUNTIES. THIS REMAINING RAIN...WILL COMBINE WITH RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN EARLIER THIS MORNING...TO CONTINUE THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING IN THOSE COUNTIES. THE AREAS HARDEST HIT EARLIER INCLUDE THE AREAS OF SUNNYBROOK... LICKFORD...POWERSBURG...PARNELL...AND MILL SPRINGS IN WAYNE COUNTY...AND NAOMI...BURNSIDE...AND TATEVILLE IN SOUTHERN PULASKI COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ROADS...FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS...AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. PLEASE PASS YOUR FLOOD REPORTS TO YOUR NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN JACKSON. $$ PIEPER
000 WGUS73 KJKL 241821 FFSJKL KYC199-231-241830- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 220 PM EDT TUE AUG 24 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PULASKI AND WAYNE COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 230 PM EDT... AT 219 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED AND IS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLOODING. ALSO...AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS NOT REPORTED ANY PROBLEMS DUE TO FLOODING ACROSS THE AREA. THUS...THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...AS SCHEDULED...AT 230 PM EDT. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. PLEASE PASS YOUR FLOOD REPORTS TO YOUR NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN JACKSON. $$ PIEPER
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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.