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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this river flood warning at Feb 10, 2020, 9:15 PM EST for Estill County, Kentucky. It took effect at Feb 11, 2020, 5:44 PM EST. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 10, 2020, 9:15 PM EST (02:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 11, 2020, 5:44 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2020, 11:38 AM EST
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Estill County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The river
Written for the forecast point Kentucky River near Ravenna (RAVK2). The gauge peaked at 24.90 ft at Feb 14, 2020, 9:00 AM EST.
- Action stage
- 17 ft
- Minor stage
- 21 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 31 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03282120, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 10, 7:19 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 7:19 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 11, 2:45 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle | 5 hr |
| Feb 11, 5:40 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Clay, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 43 hr |
| Feb 11, 1:28 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Owsley | 34 hr |
| Feb 11, 4:09 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox | 55 hr |
| Feb 11, 5:41 PM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Lee | 3 days |
| Feb 11, 6:38 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Leslie, Perry | 17 days |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.