Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 2006, 6:14 AM EST for Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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
- Jan 23, 2006, 6:14 AM EST (11:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2006, 8:15 AM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Powell County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:18 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 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 231115
FFWJKL
KYC197-231315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
614 AM EST MON JAN 23 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
POWELL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 815 AM EST
* AT 612 AM EST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING CONTINUES FROM THE EARLIER RAINS.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WESTBEND...
WALTERSVILLE...VIRDEN...POWELL VALLEY...CAT CREEK...ROSSLYN...
BOWEN...STANTON AND CLAY CITY.
NO ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE WILL AFFECT THE WARNED AREA.
HOWEVER...THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED EAST AND NO LONGER POSE A THREAT FOR
FLASH FLOODING. HOWEVER...THE AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE
TO RUN HIGH THIS MORNING.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
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.
LAT...LON 3790 8388 3792 8377 3783 8365 3773 8371
3772 8373 3777 8379 3775 8383 3777 8384
3778 8394 3784 8397 3786 8403 3792 8400
3793 8396
$$
GREIFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 11:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Powell | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Lee, Owsley | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Menifee | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Wayne | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Whitley | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 5:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Jan 23, 5:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Montgomery | 116 min |
| Jan 23, 6:18 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson | 117 min |
| Jan 23, 7:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Lee, Owsley | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.