Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1989, 1:19 AM EST for Jackson County, Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1989, 1:19 AM EST (06:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1989, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH
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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 15, 7:50 PM EST, 5 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Feb 15, 9:08 PM EST, 4 hours 11 minutes before
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 907 PM EST WED FEB 15 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FOR TONIGHT... AT 845 PM...SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS IN MORGAN COUNTY WERE OUT OF THERE BANKS. THE STREAMS WERE FLOODING SOME LOW LYING AREAS. ALSO...KY 7 NEAR WRIGLEY...KENTUCKY HAD STANDING WATER ON THE ROAD. MOST OF THE CREEKS AND STREAMS IN MORGAN COUNTY WERE SLOWLY RECEDING. LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL OVER MOST OF NORTHERN HALF OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY AT 845 PM. THE RAIN WAS FALLING NORTH OF A LINE FROM LONDON TO PIKEVILLE. THE LIGHT RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE IN MUCH OF KENTUCKY THROUGH 1100 PM. SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY RESIDENTS...PARTICULARLY THOSE LIVING NEAR STREAMS OR AREA THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE ALERT AND PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNING IS IS ISSUED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECONIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODS. IN THE SALYERSVILLE AREA...THE LICKING RIVER WAS AT 17.7 FEET LATE THIS AFTERNOON. FLOOD STAGE IS 19 FEET. IT WILL CREST AT 21 FEET THURSDAY AFTERNOON. YOU SHOULD TUNE FREQUENTLY TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 11:01 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 1100 PM EST WED FEB 15 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... THE INTENSITY OF RAINFALL IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY CONTINUED TO BE LIGHT LATE THIS EVENING. THE LIGHT RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN THE COALFIELDS TONIGHT. THE LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY AT 1040 PM AND IT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 100 AM THURSDAY MORNING. SOME SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN MORGAN COUNTY OF THE COALFIELDS. ALSO...KY HIGHWAY 7 NEAR WRIGLEY... KENTUCKY HAD STANDING WATER ON THE ROAD. MOST OF THE CREEKS AND STREAMS WERE SLOWLY RECEDING. PEOPLE LIVING IN LOW-LYING AREAS OR IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECONIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOTORIST SaHOULD USE CAUTION TONIGHT ON AREA ROADS. WATCH FOR STANDING WATER ON THE HIGHWAYS AND YOU SHOULD NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Mason | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Gallia, Meigs | 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.