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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this river flood warning at Apr 4, 2025, 12:20 AM EDT for Owsley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2025, 12:20 AM EDT (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2025, 12:43 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 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 04:20 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 26.79 ft at Apr 4, 2025, 1:00 AM EDT.
- 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 Apr 3, 10:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 10:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 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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| Apr 3, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Menifee, Powell | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Elliott, Morgan | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 9:24 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Owsley | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 1:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Rowan | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Estill, Johnson, Lee, Menifee and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Lee, Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Lee, Wolfe | 33 min |
| Apr 4, 5:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle, Wolfe | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Martin, Pike | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 6:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Martin and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 6:40 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Lee, Magoffin and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:08 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell | 11 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:11 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan | 11 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 10 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Martin, Pike | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 8:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Floyd | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 8:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson, Owsley, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:21 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Perry | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:04 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Martin and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Lee, Menifee, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe | 8 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle, Wolfe | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:28 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry, Pike | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:43 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Owsley | 8 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Martin, Pike | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Whitley | 24 min |
| Apr 4, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Whitley | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 3:40 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 10 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Leslie | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Harlan, Leslie, Perry | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel | 33 min |
| Apr 4, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 33 min |
| Apr 4, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Pulaski | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Letcher, Perry | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Laurel | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 5:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and 3 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Estill, Floyd, Jackson, Johnson, Knott and 10 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Knott | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Rockcastle | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Estill | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 23 min |
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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.