Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Feb 13, 1989, 9:30 PM CST for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 1989, 9:30 PM CST (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 1989, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Daviess County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, McLean County, KY, Ohio 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 599 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 KEVV 140330
FFWEVV
KYC091-101-149-059-059-225-ILC185-047-INC163-140730-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
930 PM CST MON FEB 13 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF KENTUCKY
HANCOCK...HENDERSON...MCLEAN...OHIO...DAVIESS...UNION...
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF ILLINOIS
WABASH...EDWARDS...
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF INDIANA
VANDERBURGH...
AT 915 PM CST STATE POLICE REPORT THAT MANY SECONDARY ROADS ARE
COVERED WITH WATER OVER WEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS.
ALSO MANY LOW LYING INTERSECTIONS IN EVANSVILLE INDIANA ARE UNDER
WATER.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY PLUS
THE ROADWAY MAY BE WASHED OUT. A iVEHICLE CAUGHT IN RISING WATER
SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGH 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, Feb 13, 6:38 PM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR DENSE FOG NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 730 PM EST SUN FEB 13 1989 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR NORTHEAST AND PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA... A DENSE FOG ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST AND PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL INDIANA. MOTORIST TRAVELING NORTH AND NORTHEAST FROM INDIANAPOLIS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION DUE TO VERY POOR VISIBILITIES. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO ALLOW EXTRA BRAKING DISTANCE WHEN APPROACHING MAJOR INTERSECTIONS. AT 700 PM EST FOG WAS REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO AS LOW AS 1/16 OF A MILE AT GRISSOM AFB...1/8 MILE AT INDIANAPOLIS AND 1/4 MILE AT FORT WAYNE. INDIANA STATE POLICE AT RED KEY AT 700 PM EST REPORTED VISIBILITIES TO BETWEEN 100 AND 300 FEET IN THE MUNCIE...MARION AREA. THE DENSE FOG SHOULD SLOWLY DISSIPATE LATER TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA. PRZYBYLINSKI
Special weather statement, Feb 13, 6:41 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR DENSE FOG...CORRECTION FOR DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 730 PM EST MON FEB 13 1989 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR NORTHEAST AND PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA... A DENSE FOG ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST AND PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL INDIANA. MOTORIST TRAVELING NORTH AND NORTHEAST FROM INDIANAPOLIS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION DUE TO VERY POOR VISIBILITIES. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO ALLOW EXTRA BRAKING DISTANCE WHEN APPROACHING MAJOR INTERSECTIONS. AT 700 PM EST FOG WAS REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO AS LOW AS 1/16 OF A MILE AT GRISSOM AFB...1/8 MILE AT INDIANAPOLIS AND 1/4 MILE AT FORT WAYNE. INDIANA STATE POLICE AT RED KEY AT 700 PM EST REPORTED VISIBILITIES TO BETWEEN 100 AND 300 FEET IN THE MUNCIE...MARION AREA. THE DENSE FOG SHOULD SLOWLY DISSIPATE LATER TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA. PRZYBYLINSKI
Special weather statement, Feb 13, 8:01 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR DENSE FOG NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 900 PM EST MON FEB 13 1989 ...THERE IS A DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR NORTHEAST AND PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT... DENSE FOG WILL COVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST AND PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN WHILE DRIVING IN DENSE FOG. VISIBILITIES WERE LOWEST AROUND MARION AND MUNCIE...DOWN TO UNDER 100 FEET IN SOME SPOTS. IMPROVEMENT WAS TAKING PLACE OVER THE NORTHEAST AND WEST CENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE JUST BEFORE 9 PM. VISIBILITIES WERE ALREADY IMPROVING IN THE FORT WAYNE AREA...AND WILL BE IMPROVING IN THE INDIANAPOLIS AREA BY 10 PM. DS
Special weather statement, Feb 13, 9:11 PM CST, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR DENSE FOG NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 1010 PM EST MON FEB 13 1989 ...THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR NORTHEAST AND PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELED... MOST VISIBILITIES OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL INDIANA HAD IMPROVED TO AROUND 1 MILE AT 10 PM. THERE WERE STILL A FEW SPOTS OF DENSE FOG OVER EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...BUT THOSE WILL IMPROVE BEFORE MIDNIGHT. WINDS OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL FINDIANA HAD SHIFTED TO...OR WERE SHIFTING TO...THE WEST. THOSE SLIGHTLY DRIER WINDS WERE SWEEPING OUT THE DENSE FOG. DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Union | 4 hr |
| Feb 13, 11:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hopkins | 4 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Henderson, Union | 4 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Hancock, Ohio | 4 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | McLean | 4 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hopkins | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.