Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2007, 7:27 PM EDT for McCreary County, Kentucky. It was in force for 93 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2007, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2007, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCreary County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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, 11.5 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
- 929 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 162330
FFWJKL
KYC147-170100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
727 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MCCREARY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT
* AT 724 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
RAINFALL HEAVY ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO AREAS IN
THE VICINITY OF HOLLYHILL...INCLUDING OSBORN CREEK...ROCK CREEK...
RYANS CREEK...AND HAYES CREEK.
THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO PASS
REPEATEDLY OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT OVER 2
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA BETWEEN 6 AND 7:30 PM.
AN ADDITIONAL INCH TO INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN IS EXPECTED BETWEEN
7:30 AND 8:00 PM.
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.
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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT ANY FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL
FREE AT...1...8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3660 8444 3660 8429 3660 8427 3661 8426
3662 8427 3667 8432 3665 8444
$$
GEOGERIAN2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KJKL 162350
FFSJKL
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
749 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2007
KYC147-170100-
MCCREARY KY-
749 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2007
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN MCCREARY COUNTY...
AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HOLLYHILL...
INCLUDING OSBORN CREEK...ROCK CREEK...RYANS CREEK...AND HAYES CREEK.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 8:15 PM...
HOWEVER UP TO AN ADDITIONAL HALF INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS
LOCATIONS THAT HAVE ALREADY SEEN BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN
BETWEEN 6 AND 7:45 PM.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND
FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3660 8444 3660 8429 3660 8427 3661 8426
3662 8427 3667 8432 3665 8444
$$
GEOGERIAN000
WGUS73 KJKL 170049
FFSJKL
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
849 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2007
KYC147-170100-
MCCREARY KY-
849 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2007
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM FOR SOUTHEASTERN
MCCREARY COUNTY...
HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...ENDING THE THREAT
OF FLASH FLOODING.
LAT...LON 3660 8444 3660 8429 3660 8427 3661 8426
3662 8427 3667 8432 3665 8444
$$
GEOGERIANNearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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.