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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Jackson, KY

April 30, 2005Morgan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 2005, 4:07 AM EDT for Morgan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 6 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: Apr 30, 2005, 4:07 AM EDT (08:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2005, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morgan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 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 300814
FFWJKL
KYC175-301400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
407 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MORGAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 1000 AM EDT

* AT 354 AM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH          
  FLOODING WITH ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF FEET OF WATER FLOWING 
  OVER PATOKER BRANCH JUST SOUTH OF HWY 172.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO            
  SILVERHILL...RELIEF...CANEY...CANNEL CITY...COTTLE...OPHIR AND
  WEST LIBERTY.

SOME STREAMS THAT MAY BE MOST AFFECTED INCLUDE CANEY CREEK...PAINT 
CREEK...WHEEL RIM FORK...WHITE OAK CREEK AND PATOKER BRANCH.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH ARE 
POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA...BEFORE THE RAIN TAPERS OFF AROUND 
SUNRISE. THE HEAVY RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN WILL CAUSE 
RAPID RUNOFF AND FLOODING OF CREEKS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. 
ROCK AND MUDSLIDES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN AREAS OF STEEP TERRAIN.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE 
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS LOW 
WATER CROSSINGS AND OTHER AREAS COVERED IN WATER. REMEMBER... TURN 
AROUND...DONT DROWN

LAT...LON 3781 8342 3774 8328 3791 8298 3800 8303
      3797 8345

$$

PELTON

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KJKL 301133
FFSJKL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
733 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005

KYC175-301400-
MORGAN KY-
733 AM EDT SAT APR 30 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 AM EDT FOR MORGAN
COUNTY...

AT 725 AM EDT...COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED THAT SEVERAL AREAS ACROSS 
THE COUNTY WERE STILL SEEING PROBLEMS DUE TO HIGH WATER. ALTHOUGH 
THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE ENDED...SINCE...ACCORDING TO DOPPLER RADAR 
ESTIMATES...BETWEEN 2.5 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ACROSS A 
PORTION OF EXTREME SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTY...AND 1.5 TO 2 INCHES 
ELSEWHERE SINCE THE ONSET OF RAINS WITH THIS SYSTEM...RUNOFF WILL 
CONTINUE TO BE A PROBLEM. AS SUCH...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR 
MORGAN COUNTY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 10 AM THIS MORNING.

THE HARDEST HIT AREAS WITH THIS SYSTEM HAVE BEEN IN THE AREAS OF 
CANNEL CITY...SALEM...WELL STATION...WILLIAMS...AND MURPHY FORK IN 
FAR SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3781 8342 3774 8328 3791 8298 3800 8303
      3797 8345

$$
PIEPER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 12:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	6 hr
Apr 30, 2:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd	6 hr
Apr 30, 3:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Magoffin	6 hr
Apr 30, 3:28 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Estill	6 hr
Apr 30, 3:35 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Jackson, Lee, Owsley	6 hr
Apr 30, 3:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Johnson, Martin	6 hr
Apr 30, 4:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Clay, Perry	6 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.