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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Jackson, KY

June 20, 2011Bath County, Fleming County, Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2011, 1:37 PM EDT for Bath County, Fleming County, Rowan 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: Jun 20, 2011, 1:37 PM EDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bath County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 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 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -222 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

771 
WGUS53 KJKL 201737
FFWJKL
KYC011-069-205-202130-
/O.NEW.KJKL.FF.W.0027.110620T1737Z-110620T2130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
137 PM EDT MON JUN 20 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FLEMING COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  NORTHEASTERN BATH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 130 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING TOWARDS THE WARNED   
  AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED
  FROM 2 PM TO 4 PM. RAINFALL EARLIER TODAY PRODUCED 2 TO 3 INCHES 
  OF RAIN...SO STREAMS ARE ALREADY RUNNING HIGH.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...     
  FLEMINGSBURG...MOREHEAD...BRANDY...CHRISTY...CLEARFIELD...         
  COWAN...CRAIGS...CRAINTOWN...CRANSTON...DALESBURG...ELIZAVILLE...  
  GATES...GRANGE CITY...HAYS CROSSING...HILDA...HILLSBORO...MOUNT    
  CARMEL...MUSES MILLS...ODESSA...AND PEBBLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3849 8358 3844 8357 3840 8346 3840 8341
      3827 8331 3816 8326 3814 8374 3829 8387
      3833 8385 3835 8391 3841 8394 3844 8399
      3845 8399 3850 8394 3847 8386 3853 8364

$$

SBH

1 follow-up statement

199 
WGUS73 KJKL 202000
FFSJKL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
400 PM EDT MON JUN 20 2011

KYC011-069-205-202015-
/O.CAN.KJKL.FF.W.0027.000000T0000Z-110620T2130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
FLEMING KY-ROWAN KY-BATH KY-
400 PM EDT MON JUN 20 2011

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
BATH...NORTHERN ROWAN AND FLEMING COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...
PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 3849 8358 3844 8357 3840 8346 3840 8341
      3827 8331 3816 8326 3814 8374 3829 8387
      3833 8385 3835 8391 3841 8394 3844 8399
      3845 8399 3850 8394 3847 8386 3853 8364

$$

SBH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 1:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	29 min
Jun 20, 2:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley	29 min
Jun 20, 2:10 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary and 3 more	5 hr
Jun 20, 2:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox	50 min
Jun 20, 2:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	4 hr
Jun 20, 2:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Whitley	5 hr
Jun 20, 2:59 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	6 hr
Jun 20, 3:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Whitley	38 min
Jun 20, 3:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	3 hr
Jun 20, 4:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	5 hr
Jun 20, 4:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	26 min
Jun 20, 5:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Lee, Owsley	25 min
Jun 20, 6:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Whitley	3 hr
Jun 20, 7:01 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Montgomery and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 20, 8:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher and 2 more	3 hr
Jun 20, 8:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Whitley	13 hr
Jun 20, 8:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	48 min
Jun 20, 9:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	36 min
Jun 20, 9:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	6 hr
Jun 20, 9:44 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Breathitt, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell and 1 more	106 min
Jun 20, 10:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Knott, Lee, Leslie, Menifee, Perry and 2 more	5 hr
Jun 20, 10:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Breathitt, Elliott, Fleming, Floyd, Knott and 5 more	5 hr
Jun 20, 11:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Leslie, Owsley, Perry, Wolfe	5 hr
Jun 20, 6:11 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Lee	22 hr

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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.