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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY

May 10, 2016Fleming County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2016, 9:24 PM EDT for Fleming County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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: May 10, 2016, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2016, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Fleming County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

545 
WGUS53 KJKL 110124
FFWJKL
KYC069-110430-
/O.NEW.KJKL.FF.W.0008.160511T0124Z-160511T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
924 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT

* AT 922 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO THE WARNED AREA. SOME LOCATIONS HAVE
  ALREADY RECEIVED OVER AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAINFALL FROM EARLIER
  THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING
  OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS...AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  FLEMINGSBURG...FAIRVIEW...CRAINTOWN...NEPTON...WALLINGFORD...ELIZAVILLE...
  PECKS RIDGE...COWAN...MOUNT CARMEL...FOXPORT...EWING AND FLEMINGSBURG
  JUNCTION.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3849 8359 3844 8357 3844 8358 3842 8356
      3832 8385 3834 8384 3834 8386 3836 8388
      3835 8390 3837 8390 3836 8392 3842 8395
      3845 8398 3849 8393 3846 8385 3852 8364

$$

GEOGERIAN

1 follow-up statement

388 
WGUS73 KJKL 110245
FFSJKL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1045 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016

KYC069-110430-
/O.CON.KJKL.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160511T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
FLEMING KY-
1045 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM EDT FOR
NORTHERN FLEMING COUNTY...

AT 1043 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE
RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS...
ROADS...AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
FLEMINGSBURG...FAIRVIEW...CRAINTOWN...NEPTON...WALLINGFORD...ELIZAVILLE...
PECKS RIDGE...COWAN...MOUNT CARMEL...FOXPORT...EWING AND FLEMINGSBURG
JUNCTION.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3849 8359 3844 8357 3844 8358 3842 8356
      3832 8385 3834 8384 3834 8386 3836 8388
      3835 8390 3837 8390 3836 8392 3842 8395
      3845 8398 3849 8393 3846 8385 3852 8364

$$

GEOGERIAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt	28 min
May 10, 8:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan and 2 more	3 hr
May 10, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Perry	44 min
May 10, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Magoffin, Owsley, Wolfe	39 min
May 10, 8:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Morgan, Wolfe	3 hr
May 10, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin	59 min
May 10, 8:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Lee, Magoffin and 2 more	3 hr
May 10, 8:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 10, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	76 min
May 10, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Martin, Pike	62 min
May 10, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knott, Pike	41 min
May 10, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Pike	52 min
May 10, 9:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Pike	3 hr
May 10, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	57 min
May 10, 9:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	2 hr
May 10, 10:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Wayne	31 min
May 10, 10:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	24 min
May 10, 10:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	3 hr
May 10, 10:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	49 min
May 10, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	17 min
May 10, 10:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	28 min
May 10, 10:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski	40 min
May 10, 11:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	14 min
May 10, 11:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	49 min
May 10, 11:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	4 hr
May 10, 11:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley	42 min
May 10, 11:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Powell, Pulaski and 2 more	5 hr
May 10, 11:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 11, 12:02 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Perry, Pike	6 hr
May 11, 12:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	33 min
May 11, 12:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Martin and 3 more	3 hr
May 11, 12:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 11, 1:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski	3 hr
May 11, 1:36 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, McCreary, Perry and 3 more	3 hr
May 11, 2:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox	41 min
May 11, 2:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	67 min
May 11, 2:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Whitley	66 min
May 11, 2:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 11, 3:23 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher and 4 more	3 hr
May 11, 3:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, Pulaski, Whitley	3 hr
May 11, 5:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	2 hr
May 11, 6:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 11, 7:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox	3 hr
May 11, 11:13 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill	4 days
May 11, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	32 min
May 11, 6:24 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Lee	36 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.