1 flash 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 Jun 9, 4:40 PM EST, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 540 PM EDT WED JUN 9 2004 .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA FORMED THIS AFTERNOON IN THE VERY MOIST TONGUE OF 70+ DWPTS ACROSS CNTRL KY. A FEW SHRA ALSO FORMED ALONG THE DANIEL BOONE NATIONAL FOREST IN AN AREA OF OROGRAPHIC LIFT AND LLVL CONVERGENCE. THESE STORMS QUICKLY DIED AS THEY SLOWLY DRIFTED INTO AN AREA EAST OF THE DANIEL BOONE RIDGE WITH DOWNSLOPE AND A SLIGHTLY STRONGER CAP. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS FROM THE CNTRL KY GROUP CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST AND AT FCST TIME WERE MOVING TOWARD OUR NWRN CWFA. THEY WERE RAPIDLY DECREASING IN INTENSITY AND SIZE AND SHOULD CONTINUE THAT TREND. MODELS ARE IN VERY GOOD AGREEMENT ON THE PLACEMENT OF THE E/W STATIONARY FNT CURRENTLY ACROSS LOWER MI. THIS FNT WILL SLOWLY PUSH SOUTH...ARRIVING AT THE OH RVR BY LATE WED NITE. KY SHOULD STAY IN THE WARM SECTOR WITH MOSTLY HIT OR MISS TSRA THE RESULT. HOWEVER THE AREA NEAR THE OH RVR WILL SEE BETTER ACTIVITY THU THRU FRI WITH THE LLVL CONVERGENGE. FNT WILL STAY IN THE AREA AND NEITHER MODEL REALLY TAKE IT OUT OF THE AREA BUT TEND TO WEAKEN IT BY SAT AFTERNOON. THEN DRAW IT BACK NORTH AS A WARM FNT LATE SUN. ANOTHER S/WV WILL DROP OUT OF THE PLAINS MON AND INCREASE THE POPS SLIGHTLY. THE CURRENT MODELS FCST THIS SYSTEM TO BE STRONG ENUF TO PUSH THRU THE AREA AND MAY GIVE US A DAY OR TWO OF RELATIVELY DRY... OR AT LEAST TSRA FREE WEATHER BY NEXT MID WEEK. WITH THE 50H PATTERN GOING FROM A VERY AMPLIFIED ROCKY MTN TROF AND OH VLY RIDGE TO A WEAK WRN RIDGE AND ERN TROF THAT IS NEARLY ZONAL...IT SHOULD PROGRESS FASTER ACROSS THE CONUS WHICH IN ITSELF MAY GIVE US SOME CLEARING. .PREV DISCUSSIONS... 324 PM EDT WED JUN 9 2004 MADE NO CHANGES TO MORNING ZONES. A DISTINCT CONVERGENCE LINE WAS EVIDENT OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE BEEN FIRING ALONG THIS LINE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. MODEL SOUNDINGS AND CROSS SECTIONS SHOWED AMPLE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY IN PLACE FOR INITIATION OF SHOWERS AND STORMS ACROSS CWA...ESPECIALLY AS AFTERNOON HEATING IS MAXIMIZED. TEMPS WERE RUNNING A FEW DEGREES WARMER THAN YESTERDAY...SO WENT WITH ORIGINAL MAX TEMPS ISSUED WITH 4 AM ZONES. ONLY UPDATES MADE WERE TO REMOVE MORNING AND AFTERNOON WORDING AND MENTION OF FOG. && 545 AM EDT WED JUN 9 2004 9Z SFC ANALYSIS HAD AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER QUEBEC WITH A COLD FRONT TRAILING SOUTH TO JUST N OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER AND THEN WEST TO A WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE OVER IA AND THEN FURTHER SSW TO THE FRONT RANGE OF THE ROCKIES. HIGH PRESS REMAINED OFF THE ATLANTIC COAST WITH SFC RIDGING EXTENDING WEST INTO THE OH AND TN VALLEYS. AT MID AND UPPER LEVELS...LOW TO OUR SOUTH HAS DRIFTED SLOWLY S FROM YESTERDAY AM...AND IS NOW CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. TODAY...EARLY THIS MORNING...AREAS OF FOG WILL BE DISSIPATING. EXPECT THE FOG TO THICKEN A BIT MORE BEFORE SUNRISE AS MID AND UPPER LEVEL CLOUDS SEEM TO BE GENERALLY BE THINNING. META FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW BETTER INSTABILITY PARAMETERS (CAPES 2500-3000 J/KG AND LIS OF -5 TO -6) THAN WHAT WAS OBSERVED YESTERDAY. THE REGION WILL BE ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN LOW THAT WILL GRADUALLY FILLING AND DIFF HEATING ASSOCIATED W/ YESTERDAYS CONVECTION AND TERRAIN SHOULD AID IN SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT. STORM MOTION TODAY WILL BE NEARLY STATIONARY. WITH PWS GRADUALLY INCREASING TO NEAR 1.5...THUNDERSTORMS COULD EASILY PUT DOWN A QUICK INCH IN ISOLATED AREAS. FOR THE MOST PART LEFT TEMPS AND POPS AS IS FOR TODAY...GENERALLY ABOUT 1 DEGREE WARMER THAN TUE. AGAIN WENT WITH THE HIGHEST TEMPS IN THE NW COUNTIES WITH LESS CLOUDS EXPECTED THERE. ALSO FOR POPS...BROUGHT IN SLIGHT CHANCE EARLIER IN THE SOUTH AS THIS AREA IS CLOSER TO THE UPPER LOW TO OUR S. TONIGHT...EXPECT ANY LEFTOVER CONVECTION TO DISSIPATE IN THE EVENING WITH NOT MUCH OF A TRIGGER TO KEEP IT GOING. FOR LOWS GENERALLY WENT WITH PERSISTENCE FROM WHAT HAS BEEN OBSERVED SO FAR THIS AM. THU INTO FRI...THE COLD FRONT WILL BE APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH AS A DEEPENING TROUGH OVER EASTERN CANADA AND NORTHEASTERN US WILL HELP TO PUSH IT S. COVERAGE OF CONVECTION SHOULD BE MUCH HIGHER WITH THE FRONT IN THE VICINITY. THE REGION SHOULD BE NEAR THE TRACK OF MCS ACTIVITY AND ANY OUTFLOWS FROM CONVECTION TO OUR N AND W SHOULD TRIGGER ADDITIONAL AREAS OF CONVECTION. BOTH THE GFS AND ETA BRING CONVECTION INTO THE REGION BY MID AFTERNOON ON THU. MAV POPS WERE GENERALLY LIKELY OR CAT AND STAYED CLOSE TO THEM. WENT WITH JUST HIGH CHANCE ALONG THE TN BORDER AS THIS AREA WILL BE FURTHEST FROM THE FRONT. WETBULB ZERO HEIGHTS REMAIN HIGH ON THU...WITH SHEAR PARAMETERS RATHER LOW. WITH EVEN HIGHER PWS EXPECTED WITH MOISTURE ADVECTION AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND RELATIVELY SLOW MOVEMENT OF STORMS...LOCALLY HVY RAIN WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE. THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS NIL TO EXTREMELY SLIM AT BEST. HIGHS ON THU SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED DUE TO PRECIP IN THE AREA AND CLOUD COVER. KEPT HIGHS ON THU NEAR THE PREVIOUS FORECAST...GENERALLY AROUND 80. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT SOMEWHERE OVER OR JUST TO THE N OF THE CWA BY FRI AM. WITH THE FRONT IN THE AREA...LINGERED PRECIP CHANCES INTO FRI. THE CHANCE FOR PRECIP STILL LOOKS GOOD ON FRI AND WITH GUIDANCE POPS HAVING PUSHED INTO THE LIKELY RANGE...UPPED FRI POPS TO LIKELY AS A SHORTWAVE MOVING THROUGH THE OH VALLEY SHOULD INTERACT WITH THE FRONT AND DAYTIME HEATING FOR DECENT COVERAGE OF CONVECTION... ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTH. HIGHS ON FRI SHOULD ONCE AGAIN BE SUPPRESSED DUE TO CLOUDS AND PRECIP OVER THE AREA. THE EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST LOOKED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE. THE FRONT SHOULD GRADUALLY WASH OUT/DISSIPATE OVER THE REGION THIS WEEKEND. LATE IN THE PERIOD A RATHER PROGRESSIVE THROUGH AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO CROSS THE REGION. EXTENT OF RIDGING OVER THE SE US WILL CAUSE THIS FRONT TO SLOW DOWN ITS EASTWARD PROGRESS WHEN IT REACHES THE REGION. LATER SHIFTS MAY WANT TO UP POPS DURING THE MON AND TUE TIME FRAME IF THE LATEST MODEL TRENDS HOLD UP. && 958 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 2004 UPDATING THE FORECAST TO REMOVE EVENING POPS NOW THAT CONVECTION HAS DRIED UP. WILL HANDLE REMAINING CLOUDS WHICH ARE IN SOME AREAS BY INSERTING VARIABLE CLOUD WORDING IN THE ZFP FOR THE EARLY PART OF THE FORECAST. OTHERWISE WITH CONVECTION GONE AND A TREND OF DECREASING CLOUDS...AND NO SIGNIFICANT WX SYSTEMS...SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLEAR OR BECOME MOSTLY CLEAR TONIGHT. && .JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. DUSTY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 516 AM EDT WED JUN 9 2004 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-101100- BATH KY-BELL KY-BREATHITT KY-CLAY KY-ELLIOTT KY-ESTILL KY-FLEMING KY- FLOYD KY-HARLAN KY-JACKSON KY-JOHNSON KY-KNOTT KY-KNOX KY-LAUREL KY- LEE KY-LESLIE KY-LETCHER KY-MAGOFFIN KY-MARTIN KY-MCCREARY KY- MENIFEE KY-MONTGOMERY KY-MORGAN KY-OWSLEY KY-PERRY KY-PIKE KY- POWELL KY-PULASKI KY-ROCKCASTLE KY-ROWAN KY-WAYNE KY-WHITLEY KY- WOLFE KY- 516 AM EDT WED JUN 9 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVING DUE TO WEAK STEERING WINDS AND COULD BRING LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. THE GREATEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS IS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL IN ANY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. JP
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:37 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Two to three feet of water were over Highway 317 from Taylor Hardware in Neon to Rockhouse.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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