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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1990, 7:03 PM EST for Gallia County, Ohio; Cabell County, Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 1990, 7:03 PM EST (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 30, 1990, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gallia County, OH, Cabell County, WV, Mason County, WV
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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Dec 30, 1:05 PM EST, 5 hours 58 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, 4 hours 49 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, 7:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Boyd, Greenup | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 7:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson, Lawrence, Martin | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Adams, Pike, Scioto | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 10:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Gallia, Meigs | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 7:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Wayne | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1990Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.