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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Louisville, KY

November 9, 1986Pulaski County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 9, 1986, 2:15 AM EST for Pulaski County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 9, 1986, 2:15 AM EST (07:15 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 1986, 6:00 AM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAAOO KSDF 090715
FFWSDF
KYC053-199-203-231-091100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
215 AM EST SUN NOV  9 1986
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
          ..CLINTON..PULASKI..ROCKCASTLE
          ..WAYNE

AT 2 AM EST HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
COUNTIES OF CLINTON...WAYNE...PULASKI AND ROCKCASTLE. FLOODING WAS
REPORTED ON A SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 192 IN AND NEAR MONTICELLO IN
WAYNE COUNTY. FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED IN BROADHEAD IN ROCKCASTLE
COUNTY WHERE HIGHWAY 150 IS BLOCKED AND IN CONWAY IN NORTHERN
ROCKCASTLE WHERE U.S. ROUTE 25 IS BLOCKED. IN PULASKI COUNTY SEVERAL
ROADS INCLUDING PORTIONS OF KENTUCKY 39 WERE UNDER WATER.
 
HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AND THE FLOODING SITUATION WILL
WORSEN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 4 TO 5 INCHES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM
SOME LOCATIONS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS FLOODING SITUATION.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO NOT
STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOODh 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.
 
SCHOLZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 10:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Lincoln, Rockcastle	3 hr
Nov 8, 11:02 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Powell	4 hr
Nov 9, 12:25 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Laurel	4 hr
Nov 9, 1:15 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Whitley	4 hr
Nov 9, 1:43 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	McCreary	4 hr
Nov 9, 2:15 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clinton, Wayne	4 hr
Nov 9, 5:06 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	McCreary, Whitley	4 hr

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.