Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 8, 1986, 10:21 PM EST for Floyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 8, 1986, 10:21 PM EST (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 1986, 2:15 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, KY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAAOO KJKL 090321
FFWJKL
KYC071-090715-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1021 PM EST SAT NOV 8 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY
..FLOYD
HEAVY RAIN HAS CAUSED OVER BANK FLOODING IN THE MIDDLE CREEK AREA
OF FLOYD COUNTY..JUST WEST OF PRESTONSBURG..FORCING THE EVACUATION
OF SOME HOMES. WITH RAIN CONTINUING..AND THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE
THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT..RESIDENTS OF FLOYD COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED
TO SEEK SAFE GROUND IF NECESSARY.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES, DIPS, OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM, EVEN A SMALL ONE,
ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 6:19 PM EST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 600 PM EST SAT NOV 8 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 600 PM RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS JUST NORTHWEST OF MANCHESTER..IN CLAY COUNTY..OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LONDON. LIGHT RAIN WAS FALLING IN THE ..JACKSON..HAZARD..AND PIKEVILLE AREAS. MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN WAS TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE NORTHERN COUNTIES ON THE COALFIELDS HAVE RECIVED MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST 24 HOURS AND AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT CAUSING FLOODING OF MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND POORLY DRAINED AREAS IS ALSO LIKELY. IF YOU LIFE IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA YOU SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND SEEK SHELTER IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. 8 ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 8:20 PM EST, 2 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 820 PM EST SAT NOV 8 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 820 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE COALFIELDS. A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING ACROSS THE THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MORGAN COUNTY. MANY OF THE SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAMS IN MORGAN COUNTY ARE APPROACHING BANKFULL STAGE. IN MAGOFFIN COUNTY WERE LIGHT RAIN IS CONTINUING..SOME MINOR LOWLAND FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED. THE WEATHER RADAR AT JACKSON SHOWS THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSON TO JUST NORTH OF LONDON. THESE THUNDER/ STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FALLING ON SATURATED GROUND RESULTING IN RAPID RUN-OFF CAUSING FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS AS WELL AS PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA YOU SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IF WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 10:06 PM EST, 15 minutes before
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1005 PM EST SAT NOV 8 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MORGAN AND MAGOFFIN COUNTIES...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 1005PM EST...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ...WITH HEAVY RAIN FALL...WAS FROM CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA THROUGH SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY TO NEAR NASHVILLE TENNESSEE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN FALL WAS IN MORGAN AND MAGOFFIN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED. IF YOU ARE IN THESE FLOOD AREAS YOU SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. YOU SHOULD TUNE FREQUENTLY TO THIS WEATHER RADIO STATION OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 9:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Nov 9, 1:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 4 hr |
| Nov 9, 2:48 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Knott, Perry | 4 hr |
| Nov 9, 3:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Leslie | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.