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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 5:53 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 E Vancleve, KY | HIGHWAY 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.
- 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
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
$$
PIEPER2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KJKL 082247
FFSJKL
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
638 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005
KYC025-237-082345-
WOLFE KY-BREATHITT KY-
638 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN WOLFE COUNTY...
* AT 635 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC AND BREATHITT COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED
THAT FLASH FLOODING NEAR VANCLEAVE IN NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY
CONTINUED...WITH WATER OVER LOWER TAULBEE ROAD.
BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WARNED AREA. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST
ACTIVITY HAS COME TO AN END FOR THE EVENING...RUNOFF FROM THIS
EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF RAIN CONTINUES TO EFFECT AREAS IN NORTHERN
BREATHITT COUNTY...AND SOUTHEASTERN WOLF COUNTY. THOSE AREAS BEING
HIT HARDEST BY THE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF INCLUDE AREAS SURROUNDING THE
TRIBUTARIES TO THE RED RIVER IN SOUTHEASTERN WOLFE COUNTY...AND THE
TRIBUTARIES TO FROZEN CREEK IN NORTHERN BREATHITT COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3751 8358 3764 8353 3772 8371 3783 8362
3781 8358 3786 8349 3779 8336 3766 8324
3759 8303 3751 8297 3753 8307 3745 8314
3741 8313 3744 8322 3735 8339 3738 8348
3734 8354
$$
PIEPER000 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
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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.