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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY

June 8, 2005Breathitt County, Wolfe County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2005, 5:41 PM EDT for Breathitt County, Wolfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 2005, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2005, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Breathitt County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 5:53 PM EDTFLASH FLOOD4 E Vancleve, KYHIGHWAY 378 IMPASSABLE DUE TO HIGH WATER AT INTERSECTION WITH HIGHWAY 394.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 2005-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 662 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2005-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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 082150
FFWJKL
KYC025-237-082345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
541 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN WOLFE COUNTY
  NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 537 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLASH FLOODING NEAR VANCLEAVE  
  IN BREATHITT COUNTY ALONG LOWER TAULBEE ROAD...MAKING THE ROAD     
  IMPASSABLE.

* THE HEAVIEST RAIN FROM PREVIOUS ACTIVITY IN BREATHITT COUNTY FELL 
  IN THE BASINS OF DAVIS CREEK...LICK CREEK...LOWER AND UPPER TWIN   
  CREEK...AND MORGUE CREEK...AS WELL AS OTHER TRIBUTARIES TO FROZEN  
  CREEK IN BREATHITT COUNTY.

* THE HEAVIEST RAIN FROM THE PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEASTERN  
  WOLFE COUNTY FELL IN THE BASINS OF ROSE FORK...CLARK               
  BRANCH...TRENT FORK...GILLMORE CREEK...AND BANKS FORK.

ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS COME TO AN END...RUNOFF FROM 
PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING 
PROBLEMS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3751 8358 3764 8353 3772 8371 3783 8362
      3781 8358 3786 8349 3779 8336 3766 8324
      3759 8303 3751 8297 3753 8307 3745 8314
      3741 8313 3744 8322 3735 8339 3738 8348
      3734 8354

$$
PIEPER
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS73 KJKL 082247
FFSJKL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
638 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005

KYC025-237-082345-
WOLFE KY-BREATHITT KY-
638 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PORTIONS OF 
NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN WOLFE COUNTY...

* AT 635 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC AND BREATHITT COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED  
  THAT FLASH FLOODING NEAR VANCLEAVE IN NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY    
  CONTINUED...WITH WATER OVER LOWER TAULBEE ROAD.

BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS 
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WARNED AREA. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST 
ACTIVITY HAS COME TO AN END FOR THE EVENING...RUNOFF FROM THIS 
EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF RAIN CONTINUES TO EFFECT AREAS IN NORTHERN 
BREATHITT COUNTY...AND SOUTHEASTERN WOLF COUNTY. THOSE AREAS BEING 
HIT HARDEST BY THE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF INCLUDE AREAS SURROUNDING THE 
TRIBUTARIES TO THE RED RIVER IN SOUTHEASTERN WOLFE COUNTY...AND THE 
TRIBUTARIES TO FROZEN CREEK IN NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3751 8358 3764 8353 3772 8371 3783 8362
      3781 8358 3786 8349 3779 8336 3766 8324
      3759 8303 3751 8297 3753 8307 3745 8314
      3741 8313 3744 8322 3735 8339 3738 8348
      3734 8354

$$
PIEPER
000 
WGUS73 KJKL 082344
FFSJKL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
738 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005

KYC025-237-082345-
WOLFE KY-BREATHITT KY-
738 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY 
AND SOUTHEASTERN WOLFE COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 745 PM 
THIS EVENING...

THE HEAVY RAIN THAT RESULTED IN FLASH FLOODING ACROSS PORTIONS OF 
SOUTHEASTERN WOLFE COUNTY AND NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY HAS LONG 
SINCE ENDED. AREA SPOTTERS REPORT THAT PREVIOUSLY HIGH WATERS HAVE 
RECEDED IN THE AREA...AND AS NO FURTHER HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED 
TONIGHT...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN BREATHITT AND 
SOUTHEASTERN WOLF COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...ON 
SCHEDULE...AT 745 PM.

$$
PIEPER

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.