Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1990, 4:32 PM EST for Boyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 1990, 4:32 PM EST (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 30, 1990, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boyd 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 463 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 KHTS 302134
FFWHTS
KYC019-310030-
BULLETIN
SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
432 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST KENTUCKY
...BOYD
STATE POLICE REPORT FLOODING ALONG ROUTE 5 IN WESTERN BOYD COUTY OF
KENTUCKY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NO^T
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.
HATFIELDWhat 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, Dec 30, 11:34 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
KYZ008-301830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1130 AM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AT 1130 THIS MORNING...NO RAIN WAS FALLING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... BUT A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL BE MOVING INTO THE COALFIELDS DURING THE AFTERNOON. THIS RAIN WILL BE FALLING ON SATURATED GROUND...CAUSING RAPID RUNOFF INTO ALREADY SWOLLEN CREEKS AND RIVERS. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA...YOU SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSLY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RISING WATER IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 1:05 PM EST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
KYZ008-301930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 100 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AT 100 PM...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WAS APPROACHING THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. MANY AREAS IN KENTUCKY RECEIVED MORE THAN AN INCH OF RAIN FROM THIS SYSTEM AND IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WHERE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED AND CREEKS AND RIVERS ARE SWOLLEN FLOODING WILL POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA...YOU SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSLY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RISING WATER IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNI0NG IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 2:14 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
KYZ008-302030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 210 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AT 200 PM...AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO THE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN WAS FROM JACKSON COUNTY...25 MILES WEST OF JACKSON THROUGH LEE AND WOLFE TO MORGAN COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE COALFIELDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THIS RAIN SPREADS OVER THE REGION. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA...YOU SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSLY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND eIF RISING WATER IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 5:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Boyd | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 5:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson, Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 5:12 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Carter | 4 hr |
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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.