Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1990, 2:42 PM EST for Leslie County, Perry County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1990, 2:42 PM EST (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1990, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Leslie County, KY, Perry 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 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 KJKL 031942
FFWJKL
KYC131-193-032345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
242 PM EST SAT FEB 3 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KENTUCKY
LESLIE...PERRY
AT 230 PM FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN THE BIG CREEK AREA OF PERRY
COUNTY...JUST WEST OF HAZARD AND ON CUTSHIN AND STINNETT CREEK
IN LESLIE COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAZARD. HIGHWAY
699 ON CUTSHIN CREEK AND HIGHWAY 406 ON STINNET CREEK WERE ALREADY
FLOODED AND FLOODING WILL CONTINUE IN THESE COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT
SEVERAL HOURS.
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
ROAD. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM..EVEN A SMALL ONE..ON
FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER..MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION
ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF
SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN JACKSON
ADDINGTONWhat 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 3, 11:46 AM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
KYZ008-031830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 1135 AM EST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY TODAY AND TONIGHT... HEAVY RAIN BEGAN SPREADING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY THIS MORNING. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS BEEN IN KNOX...JACKSON AND OWSLEY COUNTIES...EAST AND NORTH OF LONDON. THESE AREAS HAVE RECEIVED MORE THAN AN 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN THIS MORNING AND MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON. AT 1130 AM SOME MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED JUST SOUTHEAST OF BARBOURVILLE IN THE BIMBLE AREA OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LONDON. SOME STREET FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED ALONG KNOX STREET IN BARBOURVILLE. DURING THE PAST HOUR THE HEAVIER RAIN HAD MOVED OUT OF KNOX AND JACKSON COUNTIES... BUT MORE IS EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON. ELSEWHERE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY MANY SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE RAPID RUN-OFF...RESULTING IN FLASH FLOODING. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AREA OR AN AREA THAT IS PRONE TO FLOODING ...WATCH WATER LEVELS CLOSLY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OB SERVED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 12:54 PM EST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
KYZ008-031930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 1250 PM EST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 1245 PM LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. DURING THE MORNING HEAVY RAIN FELL BETWEEN LONDON AND JACKSON AND BETWEEN LONDON AND MIDDLESBORO. THESE AREAS RECEIVED MORE THAN AN 1 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN. THIS HAS PUSHED MANY CREEKS TO NEAR BANKFULL AND SOME MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED. ACROSS THE REST OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN AROUND AN INCH OR LESS. ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVIER RAIN...IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL BE MOVING INTO THE LONDON AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON. AS THIS AREA OF HEAVIER RAIN MOVES INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AREA OR AN AREA THAT IS PRONE TO FLOODING ...WATCH WATER LEVELS CLOSLY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERV8ED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 1:56 PM EST, 46 minutes before
KYZ008-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 150 PM EST SAT FEB 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY TODAY AND TONIGHT... AT 145 PM LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. HEAVY RAINS THIS MORNING PUSHED MANY CREEKS TO NEAR BANKFULL ACROSS SOUTH- EAST KENTUCKY AND SOME MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE BIG CREEK AREA OF PERRY COUNTY...JUST WEST OF HAZARD AND ALSO SOME STREET FLOODING HAS OCCURRED IN BARBOURVILE...SOUTHEAST OF LONDON. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE AVERAGED AROUND AN INCH ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...BUT SOME AREAS HAVE RECIEVED NEARLY 2 INCHES. ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVIER RAIN...IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY DURING THE AFTERNOON. AS THIS AREA OF HEAVIER RAIN MOVES INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AREA OR AN AREA THAT IS PRONE TO FLOODING YOU SHOULD WATCH WATER LkEVELS CLOSLY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.