Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Jackson, KY

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PRELIMINARLY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1230 PM EST WED DEC 19 1990

ON TUE, DEC 18 1990, SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OCCURRED ACROSS A 7 COUNTY
AREA OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. 6 OF THESE COUNTIES WERE LOCATED JUST TO
THE WEST AND NORTH OF WSO JACKSON...THE 7TH COUNTY WAS BREATHITT AND
INCLUDED WSO JACKSON. THE REPORTS LISTED BELOW OCCURRED MAINLY FROM
MID MORNING TO EARLY EVENING AND LASTED THROUGH THE NIGHT AND INTO
THE MORNING OF WED, DEC 19 1990.

COUNTY                        EVENT

BREATHITT      MANY ROADS ACROSS THE COUNTY UNDER WATER AND IMPASSABLE.
               ONE HOME HAD TO BE EVACUATED BY BOAT AND MANY AREA SCHOOL
               CHILDREN WERE UNABLE TO GET HOME DUE TO FLOODED ROADS...
               REQUIRING THEM TO BE HOUSED OVERNIGHT IN THE HIGH SCHOOL.

JACKSON        HEAVY FLOODING ESPECIALLY NEAR MCKEE AND ALONG STATE ROUTE
               421. MOST STREAMS OUT OF BANK AND MANY AREA ROADS UNDER
               WATER AND IMPASSABLE. 3 HIGHWAY BRIDGES DESTROYED, ONE
               STILL UNDER WATER AND PROBABLY DAMAGED. SEVERAL HOUSES
               REPORTED FLOODED.

MAGOFFIN       SALYERSVILLE CITY PARK UNDER WATER, MANY SECTIONS OF
               U S ROUTE 460 UNDER WATER AND MANY COUNTY ROADS FLOODED
               AND IMPASSABLE. ONE BRIDGE WASHED AWAY AND ONE EVACUATION
               WAS REQUIRED.

LEE            SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED ACROSS THE COUNTY DUE TO HIGH WATER.
               MANY CREEKS OUT OF BANKS BUT MOST FLOODING WAS RESTRICTED
               TO PREDOMINATELY LOW LYING AREAS.

WOLFE          SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER...BUT MOST OF THE
               FLOODING WAS RESTRICTED TO LOW LYING AREAS.

MORGAN         GRASSY CREEK ROSE OVER A TEMPORARY BRIDGE...POSSIBLY
               WEAKENING IT. MANY OTHER STREAMS WERE OUT OF BANK CAUSING
               SEVERAL ROADS TO BE IMPASSABLE AND CLOSED.

OWSLEY         MANY ROADS ACROSS THE COUNTY WERE FLOODED BUT ONLY SOME
               MINOR...BASEMENT...FLOODING REPORTED IN AREA HOMES. SOME
               BRIDGE APPROACHES WERE DAMAGED BY HIGH WATER AND WILL
               REQUIRE REPAIR BEFORE BEING REOPENED FOR TRAFFIC.

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