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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Jackson, KY

July 30, 2011Fleming County, Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2011, 5:06 PM EDT for 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: Jul 30, 2011, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2011, 7:13 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Fleming County, KY, Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

606 
WGUS53 KJKL 302106
FFWJKL
KYC069-205-310100-
/O.NEW.KJKL.FF.W.0045.110730T2106Z-110731T0100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
506 PM EDT SAT JUL 30 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 506 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE      
  WARNED AREA. A RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL TOTAL OF 3 INCHES HAS      
  FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA...JUST NORTH OF MOREHEAD. 

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  MOREHEAD...CHRISTY...CRANSTON...GATES...HAYS CROSSING...HILDA...
  MUNSON...PLUMMERS LANDING AND RODBURN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
JACKSON KY.

&&

LAT...LON 3824 8332 3815 8336 3820 8348 3832 8361
      3835 8353

$$

GREIF

2 follow-up statements

583 
WGUS73 KJKL 302213
FFSJKL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
613 PM EDT SAT JUL 30 2011

KYC069-205-310100-
/O.CON.KJKL.FF.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110731T0100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
ROWAN KY-FLEMING KY-
613 PM EDT SAT JUL 30 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL FLEMING AND
CENTRAL ROWAN COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM EDT...

AT 613 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAD MOVED ACROSS THE WARNED 
AREA. FROM THIS...UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN OCCURED IN A SHORT 
AMOUNT OF TIME. 

RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
MOREHEAD...CHRISTY...CRANSTON...GATES...HAYS CROSSING...HILDA...
MUNSON...PLUMMERS LANDING AND RODBURN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM 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 ALSO SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SO THAT THEY
MAY TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO CLOSE FLOODED ROADWAYS. THEY WILL
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY.

&&

LAT...LON 3824 8332 3815 8336 3820 8348 3832 8361
      3835 8353

$$

GREIF

290 
WGUS73 KJKL 302313
FFSJKL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
713 PM EDT SAT JUL 30 2011

KYC069-205-302326-
/O.CAN.KJKL.FF.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110731T0100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
ROWAN KY-FLEMING KY-
713 PM EDT SAT JUL 30 2011

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

AS OF 710 PM EDT...ROWAN COUNTY AND FLEMING COUNTY DISPATCH OFFICES 
INDICATE THAT FLOODING IS NOT OCCURRING AT THIS TIME. THIS INDICATES 
THAT 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 3824 8332 3815 8336 3820 8348 3832 8361
      3835 8353

$$

PELTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 1:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Jackson	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Lee, Powell, Wolfe	3 hr
Jul 30, 3:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Powell	3 hr
Jul 30, 3:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe	3 hr
Jul 30, 3:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Jackson, Laurel, Rockcastle	3 hr
Jul 30, 3:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Magoffin, Morgan	2 hr
Jul 30, 4:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	2 hr
Jul 30, 4:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski	110 min
Jul 30, 4:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	3 hr
Jul 30, 4:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Johnson	92 min
Jul 30, 4:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Knox, Whitley	3 hr
Jul 30, 5:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Whitley	2 hr
Jul 30, 5:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox	2 hr
Jul 30, 5:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	3 hr
Jul 30, 5:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan	3 hr
Jul 30, 5:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	McCreary	3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.