Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1990, 10:22 PM EDT for Fayette County, Jessamine County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 10:22 PM EDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, KY, Jessamine 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 8, 8:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
KYZ007-080130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 830 PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF SCOTT COUNTY AT 830PM EDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTH END OF SCOTT COUNTY INCLUDING THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN BY 9PM EDT...OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WASHINGTON AND SHELBY COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO ANDERSON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES BY 9PM EDT. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE LAWRENCEBURG IN ANDERSON COUNTY 14 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON...AND FRNKFORT IN FRANKLIN COUNTY 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH AND WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. . IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS GO TO A SAFE PALCE UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. IF YOU OBSERVE DAMAGE FROM THESE STORMS GIVE YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BH
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 8:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
KYZ007-080230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 858 PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... AT 855 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ANDERSON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS...ALSO THE STORMS WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE STORMS WILL PASS OVER THE CITY OF LAWRENCEBURG 14 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS GO TO A SAFE PALCE UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. IF YOU OBSERVE DAMAGE FROM THESE STORMS GIVE YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BH
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 9:23 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
KYZ004-090210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 911 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT... VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AS OF 915 PM. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WERE REPORTED IN CRESTWOOD...IN OLDHAM COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILE SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING AT 30 MPH TO THE EAST INTO SHELBY COUNTY AND WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF SHELBYVILLE BY 945 PM EDT. STAY TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SEEK SHELTER. WILSON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 9:25 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
KYZ007-090200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 925PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY. AT 925PM EDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH CONSIDERABLE LIGHTNING AND EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN IN ANDERSON COUNTY MOVING EAST INTO WOODFORD COUNTY 10 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS WILL BE IN VERSAILLES 6 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON AROUND 930PM EDT AND IN THE LEXINGTON AREA AROUND 945PM EDT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE AT ONCE.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 9:46 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
KYZ007-090215 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 945PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... AT 945PM EDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTY OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY 10 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON NORTHERN JESSAMINE COUNTY TO THE SOUTH OF LEXINGTON AND ACROSS FAYETTE COUNTY AND LEXINGTON. HEAVY RAIN WITH THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE RISING WATER IN LOWER LYING AREAS AS STORMS MOVE EAST AT NEAR 35 MPH. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WILL MOVE INTO FRANKLIN AND NORTHERN ANDERSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY 15 TO 25 MILES WEST THRU NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON KENTUCKY BEFORE 10PM EDT. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS ENCOUNTERED.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 10:17 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
INZ015-090245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1010 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ORANGE COUNTY INDIANA... THE FLASH FLOOD WARNIN,G FOR ORANGE COUNTY INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 10 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED ONLY LIGHT SHOWERS OVER ORANGE COUNTY WITH NO ADDITIONAL RAIN TO THE WEST. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. AMMERMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 38 min |
Nearby
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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.