Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 22, 1990, 9:50 PM CST for Clinton County, Pulaski County, Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 22, 1990, 9:50 PM CST (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 1990, 1:45 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clinton County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Wayne 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 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 KSDF 230353 FFWSDF KYC053-199-231-230745- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1050 PM EST SAT DEC 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...CLINTON COUNTY...PULASKI COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED MODERATE RAIN FALLING FROM THE TENNESSEE BORDER NORTH THROUGH CLINTON...WAYNE AND PULASKI COUNTIES THIS EVENING. IN CLINTON COUNTY SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS WERE COVERED WITH WATER AND ABOUT TO BE CLOSED. WAYNE COUNTY REPORTED WATER RISING OVER SEVERAL ROADS. PULASKI COUNTY REPORTED WATER STARTING TO OVERFLOW THE BANKS ON SEVERAL CREEKS. MODERATE RAIN WAS FALLING AT 10 PM IN CROSSVILLE TENNESSEE AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH CLINTON...WAYNE AND PULASKI COUNTIES BY 2AM EST. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. KLEIN
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 22, 5:14 PM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes before
KYZ001-230115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 600 PM EST SAT DEC 22 1990 ...WEATHER ADVISORIES FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST KENTUCKY TONIGHT AND PART OF SUNDAY. A WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY... INCLUDING THE LOUISVILLE METROPOLITAN AREA...FOR LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. THE ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR OTHER AREAS OF WEST AND NORTH KENTUCKY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. FREEZING RAIN WAS FALLING OVER WEST KENTUCKY AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE AROUND MIDNIGHT. AS COLDER AIR WORKS ITS WAY INTO THE STATE THAT FREEZING RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW. ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND 1 INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN NORTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY ON SUNDAY. DRIVING WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE TEMPERATURE DROPS BELOW THE FREEZING MARK. IF YOU ARE TRAVELLING LATE TONIGHT OR SUNDAY...ALLOW EXTRA TIME AND CHECK ON THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS. IN THE MEANTIME...LIGHT RAIN AND DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHCENTRAL INDIANA AS THE TEMPERATURE FALLS SLOWLY TOWARD THE FREEZING MARK. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Dec 22, 5:49 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before
KYZ007-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 640 PM EST SAT DEC 22 1990 ...PATCHY AREAS OF DENSE FOG DEVELOPING... AT 630 PM EST THE VISIBILITY AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN LEXINGTON KENTUCKY WAS 1/4 OF A MILE. COMBINED WITH THE WET ROADWAYS IT HAS CREATED VERY POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS THIS EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL TONIGHT PLEASE ALLOW PLENTY OF EXTRA TIME AND KEEP YOUR SPEEDS LOW. ALSO USE ONLY YOUR LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND LEAVE PLENTY OF DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE OTHER DRIVER. SZAPPANOS
Special weather statement, Dec 22, 7:52 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
KYZ007-230400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 855 PM EST SAT DEC 22 1990 ...PATCHY AREAS OF DENSE FOG CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 850 PM EST THE VISIBILITY AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN LEXINGTON KENTUCKY WAS 3/8THS OF A MILE. COMBINED WITH THE WET ROADWAYS IT HAS CREATED VERY POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS THIS EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL TON;IGHT PLEASE ALLOW PLENTY OF EXTRA TIME AND KEEP YOUR SPEEDS LOW. ALSO USE ONLY YOUR LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND LEAVE PLENTY OF DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE OTHER DRIVER. SZAPPANOS
Special weather statement, Dec 22, 8:13 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
KYZ004-230415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 900 PM EST SAT DEC 22 1990 ...WEATHER ADVISORIES FOR PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST KENTUCKY TONIGHT AND PART OF SUNDAY. A WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY... INCLUDING THE LOUISVILLE METROPOLITAN AREA...FOR LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. THE ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR OTHER AREAS OF WEST AND NORTH KENTUCKY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW WAS FALLING OVER WEST KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. THE FREEZING RAIN WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST AND SHOULD REACH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AROUND MIDNIGHT. OVERNIGHT THE FREEZING RAIN WILL AGAIN CHANGE TO SNOW WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND 1 INCH POSSIBLE OVER NORTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY ON SUNDAY. DRIVING WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE TEMPERATURE DROPS BELOW THE FREEZING MARK. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING LATE TONIGHT OR SUNDAY...ALLOW EXTRA TIME AND CHECK ON THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS.V IN THE MEANTIME...LIGHT RAIN AND DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHCENTRAL INDIANA AS THE TEMPERATURE FALLS SLOWLY TOWARD THE FREEZING MARK. KLEIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 3:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell | 4 hr |
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.