1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 18, 3:23 AM EST, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 323 AM EST TUE FEB 18 2003 ...FORECAST ISSUES... EARLY FORECAST CONCERN CENTERS AROUND PERSISTENT FREEZING DRIZZLE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. NEXT FORECAST CHALLENGE IS THE AMOUNT OF CLEARING EXPECTED TODAY. OTHER FORECAST CHALLENGES INCLUDE CHANCE OF RAIN WEDNESDAY AND THEN ANOTHER POTENT LOOKING STORM FOR THE WEEKEND. ...SHORT TERM... IN THE VERY NEAR TERM...STILL GETTING FREEZING DRIZZLE...SOME SLEET AND SNOW MIX ACROSS THE AREA. LOCAL 88-D PICS PICKING UP SOME LIGHT RETURNS AS WELL. THUS...HAVE OPTED TO CONTINUE THE WINTER WX ADVISORY FOR FREEZING DRIZZLE THROUGH 10 AM THIS MORNING. AS WE MOVE INTO THIS AFTERNOON...MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW INVERSION COMING DOWN AND HELPING SCATTER OUT CLOUDS. SO PLAN ON GOING WITH SKIES BECOMING PARTLY SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON. HAVE TRENDED AFTERNOON TEMPS SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN THE MAV GUIDANCE NUMBERS...WHICH IS VERY SIMILAR TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. HOWEVER...THE PARTLY SUNNY SKIES WILL NOT LAST TOO LONG AS HIGH CLOUDS BEGIN TO STREAM IN FROM THE NEXT SYSTEM POISED TO AFFECT THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME...WE PLAN ON HOLDING OFF PRECIPITATION UNTIL WEDNESDAY MORNING...AS ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL INITIALLY HAVE TO OVERCOME DRY ATMOSPHERE. WITH TEMPS HOVERING NEAR THE FREEZING MARK WEDNESDAY MORNING...THE PRECIPITATION MAY BEGIN AS A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND PLAIN RAIN. HOWEVER...AS TEMPS WARM UP...PRECIP WILL GO OVER TO ALL RAIN. SYSTEM QUICKLY PULLS OFF TO THE EAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION A CHANCE OF RAIN EARLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE THEN BUILDS IN FOR THURSDAY AND THEN QUICKLY MOVES OFF TO THE EAST DURING THE DAY. WITH ABUNDANT SUN AND SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS AHEAD OF NEXT DEVELOPING SYSTEM...EXPECT TEMPS TO WARN INTO THE MID 50S. ...EXTENDED... MODELS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE ANOTHER POTENT STORM SYSTEM TO MOVE INTO THE AREA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. 00Z MODELS HAVE CONTINUED TO TREND SLOWER...DEEPER AND FURTHER SOUTH WITH THEIR SURFACE SOLUTIONS. WITH A DEEPER SOLUTION...SURFACE LOW TRACKS ARE HAVE BEEN FURTHER AND FURTHER WEST WITH EACH RUN. THIS IS GOOD NEWS IN THE QPF DEPARTMENT AS THE HEAVIER PRECIPITATION LOOKS TO FALL TO OUR NORTH AND WEST. HOWEVER...STILL EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME THUNDER WITH THE SYSTEM AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY. AS THE SYSTEM PULLS EAST...COLDER AIR WILL MOVE BACK INTO THE REGION. BASICALLY HAVE MADE NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED...SO WERE STILL LOOKING AT MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH A DAILY CHANCE OF RAIN/SNOW EACH DAY. A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEW MEX GUIDANCE APPEARS TO BE IN SIMILAR AGREEMENT. ...HYDRO/RIVERS... AREA RIVERS ARE CONTINUING TO FALL AFTER A WEEKEND OF SERIOUS FLOODING. A QUICK GLANCE SHOWS THAT THE LEVISA FORK OF THE BIG SANDY RIVER CONTINUES TO FALL AT PAINTSVILLE AND PRESTONSBURG. OVER ON THE KENTUCKY RIVER...JACKSON IS FALLING AROUND A HALF FOOT PER HOUR. BOONEVILLE...HEIDELBERG AND CLAY CITY ALSO CONTINUE TO FALL AND LOOK TO GO BELOW FLOOD STAGE LATER TODAY. THE CUMBERLAND RIVER CONTINUES TO FALL WITH WILLIAMSBURG JUST CRESTING (OR APPEARING TO CREST). THUS...FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR MANY COUNTIES WHERE THE WATER HAS NOT RECEDED INTO STREAM CHANNELS. ...PRELIM NUMBERS... LOZ 45/30 47/34 1153 JKL 43/33 45/33 1143 .JKL...FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR MANY COUNTIES WHERE WATER HAS NOT RECEDED INTO STREAM CHANNELS YET. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREEZING DRIZZLE UNTIL 10 AM FOR KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-080-086>088-104-106>120 JARVIS ===================================================================== PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS... ===================================================================== 900 PM EST THE ZONES WERE UPDATED EARLIER THIS EVENING AS WIDESPREAD REPORTS OF FREEZING DRIZZLE WERE RECEIVED. PARKING LOTS AND SOME ROADS HAVE A THIN LAYER OF ICE AND HAVE BECOME VERY SLICK. AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON...SOME DRIER AIR WILL GRADUALLY MOVE IN AT LOW LEVELS AND DRIZZLE AND FLURRIES WILL END TOWARD DAWN. AN UPDATE MAY BE NEEDED LATER WHEN THE FREEZING DRIZZLE ENDS. PELTON --------------------------------------------------------------------- 535 PM EST DRIZZLE...FREEZING DRIZZLE...AND FLURRIES LINGER YET...BUT WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH DURING THE NIGHT. NEXT ISSUE IS CLOUDS DIMINISHING. APPEARS THAT AS THE INVERSION LOWERS ON TUESDAY...THE CLOUDS WILL EVENTUALLY ERODE...BUT THERE WILL BE HIGH CLOUDS ON THE WAY BACK IN LATE IN THE DAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM. NEXT SYSTEM ARRIVES TUESDAY NIGHT AND LASTS INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL TRY TO PRODUCE PRECIP. THE 12Z ETA AND GFS WERE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT...ALTHOUGH THE AVN WAS WETTER AND HAD HIGHER MOS POPS. THE AVN HAS BEEN CONSISTENT...BUT WILL TEMPER ITS POPS A BIT (ESPECIALLY ON WEDNESDAY)...WHICH WILL ALSO MAINTAIN CONTINUITY WITH OUR PREVIOUS FORECASTS. IF THE PRECIP LOOKS MORE CERTAIN IN LATER FORECASTS...POPS WILL NEED TO BE RAISED FOR THE MIDWEEK EVENT. WILL GENERALLY COMPROMISE ON MOS GUIDANCE FOR TEMPS. HOWEVER...ON WEDNESDAY THE WETTER AVN IS ALSO COOLER THAN THE ETA OR NGM. EVEN IF PRECIP IS CHANCY...THINK THAT CLOUDS WILL LIMIT HEATING. WILL GO CLOSER TO AVN MOS TEMPS ON WEDNESDAY...USING THEM AS A BOTTOM OF A RANGE. FOR THE SYSTEM AT THE END OF THE WEEK. THE TREND IN THE GFS IS FURTHER WEST. THIS FALLS IN LINE WITH PREVIOUS THINKING. WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW THE GFS. THIS BEING THE CASE...WE WOULD BE IN THE WARM SECTOR WITH STRONG WARM/MOIST INFLOW. WILL CALL FOR SHOWERS AHEAD OF CFP...WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDER FRIDAY NIGHT ASSOCIATED WITH CFP. COLDER WITH SNOW POSSIBLY MIXING IN IN THE WAKE OF THE PASSAGE OF THE DEEP LOW. HAL
KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-191200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 516 AM EST TUE FEB 18 2003 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREEZING DRIZZLE THIS MORNING FOR MOST OF EASTERN KENTUCKY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY. FREEZING DRIZZLE...ALONG WITH A FEW FLURRIES WILL PLAGUE MUCH OF EASTERN KENTUCKY THIS MORNING...ESPECIALLY EAST OF A FLEMINGSBURG TO SOMERSET TO WHITLEY CITY LINE. THE FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL PLACE A THIN GLAZE OF ICE ON ELEVATED OBJECTS AND UNTREATED ROADWAYS. THUS...AREA ROADWAYS WILL BE HAZARDOUS THIS MORNING. ROAD CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE LATE THIS MORNING AS TEMPERATURE RISE ABOVE FREEZING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A FAST MOVING WEATHER SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. THIS WEATHER SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE RAIN ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER...THE RAIN MAY BE MIXED WITH FREEZING RAIN INITIALLY. A LARGER AND MORE POTENT WEATHER SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE OUTLOOK AREA BEGINNING FRIDAY WHEN SHOWERS AND EVEN A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. AS THE SYSTEM DEPARTS THE AREA LATE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...COLDER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE AREA ALONG WITH A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO CALL IN REPORTS OF ANY SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS THIS MORNING. JARVIS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads countywide were flooded with several feet of water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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