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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this river flood warning at Feb 6, 2020, 10:41 AM EST for Owsley County, Kentucky. It took effect at Feb 6, 2020, 11:38 AM EST. It was in force for 35 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2020, 10:41 AM EST (15:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2020, 11:38 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2020, 11:03 PM EST
- In force
- 35 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Owsley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point South Fork Kentucky River at Booneville (BOOK2). The gauge peaked at 32.08 ft at Feb 7, 2020, 10:00 AM EST.
- Action stage
- 21.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 27 ft
- Moderate stage
- 32 ft
- Major stage
- 38 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03281500, 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 6, 9:26 AM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 9:26 AM EST, 1 hour 15 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 5, 7:16 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Knox, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:22 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher | 43 min |
| Feb 5, 8:38 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Perry | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:45 PM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 4 days |
| Feb 5, 9:45 PM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Whitley | 10 days |
| Feb 5, 9:46 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:27 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Owsley | 57 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:53 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:54 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan | 4 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:54 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Bell | 54 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:58 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley | 15 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan | 23 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:40 AM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Bell | 42 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:24 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knott, Knox, Laurel and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:46 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Harlan | 12 hr |
| Feb 6, 10:41 AM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Lee | 47 hr |
| Feb 6, 10:41 AM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Letcher | 4 hr |
| Feb 6, 10:41 AM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Perry | 19 hr |
| Feb 6, 10:41 AM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Clay | 12 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:11 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knott, Knox, Leslie and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:50 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:50 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Letcher | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:14 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 6, 5:01 PM EST | River Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 11 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.