Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1990, 7:47 AM EDT for Carter County, Kentucky. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1990, 7:47 AM EDT (11:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1990, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carter 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
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, Jun 3, 4:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
KYZ008-030930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 430 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHERN PART OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY HAS EXPIRED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATC+H FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 8 AM EDT... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR MORGAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY HAS EXPIRED. AT 415 AM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSSPRINT:
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:39 AM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
KYZ008-030930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...DORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 435 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 8 AM EDT... AT 430 AM EDT...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR ASHLAND TO JUST NORTH OF LONDON. THE LEADING EDGE WAS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSON. THESE THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF JACKSON...MOVING THROUGH JACKSON AND LEE COUNTIES AND IN MORGAN COUNTY...15 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...STAY IN A SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LAT2EST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
KYZ008-030930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 435 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 8 AM EDT... AT 430 AM EDT...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR ASHLAND TO JUST NORTH OF LONDON. THE LEADING EDGE WAS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSON. THESE THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF JACKSON...MOVING THROUGH JACKSON AND LEE COUNTIES AND IN MORGAN COUNTY...15 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...STAY IN A SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR3 THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:23 AM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
KYZ008-031020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 520 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 8 AM... AT 515 AM EDT...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH JACKSON AND NEAR BEATYVILLE...20 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY HAIL AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS ASSOCITATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE DRIVING... WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...STAY IN A SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTWON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:18 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
KYZ008-031120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 615 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 9 AM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 615 AM EDT...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PIKEVILLE OR JUST SOUTH OF PRESTONSBURG. THIS STORM PRODUCED AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN AS IT MOVED THROUGH THE JACKSON AREA. OTHER THUNDER/ STORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM HAZARD TO NEAR PIKEVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS ASSOCITATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE DRIVING... WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...STAY IN A SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:16 AM EDT, 31 minutes before
KYZ008-031230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 715 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 9 AM... AT 715 AM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE JUST SOUTH OF PIKEVILLE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM MIDDLESBORO TO HAZARD AND ALONG THE KENTUCKY/VIRGINIA STATE LINE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS ASSOCITATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE DRIVING... WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...STAY IN A SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
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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.