Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 16, 1989, 11:20 PM EDT for Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 1989, 11:20 PM EDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1989, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 KSDF 170330 COR
FFWSDF
KYC203-170800-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING ...CORRECTION FOR GARBLING...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1120 PM EDT MON OCT 16 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
...ROCKCASTLE
AT 11 PM EDT...THE DES COORDINATOR 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONDON...IN
BRODHEAD KENTUCKY OF ROCKCASTLE COUNTY...REPORTED NUMEROUS BASEMENTS
AND ROADS FLOODED IN THE CITY. A NUMBER OF FACTORIES IN MOUNT VERNON
WERE ALSO REPORTED FLOODED. RAINFALL AMOUNTS SINCE 10 AM ON MONDAY
MORNING HAD TOTALED 4.3 INCHES IN THE CITY OF BRODHEAD.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
TONIGHT...WITH ADDED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES POSSIBLE.
FLASH FLOODING IS THEREFORE HIGHLY PROBABLE IN THE COUNTY OF
ROCKCASTLE TONIGHT.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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.
GOETSCHWhat 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, Oct 16, 7:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 710 PM EDT MON OCT 16 1989 SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS MOST SECTIONS OF KENTUCKY AT 7 PM EDT. SOME STORMS HAVE PRODUCED PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS IN ROCKCASTLE COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY RELAYED REPORTS OF MINOR STREET FLOODING IN THE CITY OF BRODHEAD. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.8 INCHES IN A 2 HOUR PERIOD WITH A TOTAL OF 2.8 INCHES FOR THE DAY HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE EVENING HOURS...SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER KENTUCKY. SOME STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH MINOR STREET AND LOWLAND FLOODING. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A SMALL STREAM OR CREEKS...REMAIN ALERT TO WATER LEVELS AND MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. GOETSCH
Special weather statement, Oct 16, 8:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 810 PM EDT MON OCT 16 1989 SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS MOST SECTIONS OF KENTUCKY AT 8 PM EDT. SOME STORMS HAVE PRODUCED PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE EVENING HOURS...SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER KENTUCKY. SOME STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS /OF HEAVY RAIN WITH MINOR STREET AND LOWLAND FLOODING. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A SMALL STREAM OR CREEKS...REMAIN ALERT TO WATER LEVELS AND MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. GOETSCH
Special weather statement, Oct 16, 10:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1010 PM EDT MON OCT 16 1989 SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS MOST SECTIONS OF KENTUCKY AT 10 PM EDT. SOME STORMS HAVE PRODUCED PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 10 PM EDT WERE LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES WEST TO NORTHWEST OF LONDON IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THROUGHOUT THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER KENTUCKY. SOME STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH MINOR STREET AND LOWLAND FLOODING. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A SMALL STREAM OR CREEK...REMAIN ALERT TO WATER LEVELS AND MOVE |TO HIGH GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. WHEN DRIVING...DO NOT CROSS ROADS COVERED BY WATER. GOETSCH
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.