Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 19, 1988, 11:21 AM EST for Menifee County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 19, 1988, 11:21 AM EST (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 19, 1988, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Menifee 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 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLEX 191622
FFWLEX
KYC165-191930-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
1121 AM EST SAT NOV 19 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
...MENIFEE
AT 1040 AM EST THE MENIFEE ENERGENCY SERVICES COORDINATOR REPORTED
THAT BEAVER CREEK WAS OVER ITS BANKS. LOW LYING AREAS OF THE COUNTY
ARE ALREADY EXPERIENCING FLOODING AND WITH MORE RAIN ON THE WAY THE
CITY OF FRENCHBURG IS THREATNED.
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 19, 6:10 AM EST, 5 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 610 AM EST SAT NOV 19 1988 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EXTREME WEST KENTUCKY TODAY AND TONIGHT... HEAVY RAIN FELL OVER FAR WEST KENTUCKY IN THE PREDAWN HOURS SATURDAY MORNING WITH REPORTS OF URBAN FLOODING AND SOME ROADWAYS UNDER WATER NEAR MURRAY KENTUCKY...WHICH IS ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PADUCAH. SOME FLOODING WAS ALSO OBSERVED IN ADJACENT AREAS OF WESTERN TENNESSEE AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER WEST KENTUCKY AND MUCH OF THE REST OF THE STATE. THIS RAIN FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED SOIL IN THE WEST WILL RUNOFF RAPIDLY INTO ALREADY SWOLLEN RIVERS AND STREAMS. RAIN AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE LIKELY TODAY AND TONIGHT ALONG THE OHIO RIVER FROM PADUCAH TO COVINGTON. IF YOU LIVE IN WEST OR NORTH KENTUCKY...KEEP INFORMED OF THE LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST...AND BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODED 1ROADS AND UNDERPASSES. KIRKPATRICK
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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.