Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1990, 7:05 AM CST for Ballard County, Livingston County, McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1990, 7:05 AM CST (13:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1990, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ballard County, KY, Livingston County, KY, McCracken 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 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 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 KPAH 151300 FFWPAH KYC145-139-007-151700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 705 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM CST FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF WESTERN KENTUCKY...BALLARD...MCCRACKEN AND LIVINGSTON AS OF 700 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT PADUCAH HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WATER OVER ROADWAYS AND HIGHWAYS. AT 700 AM RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAD MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES BUT WITH MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING IN FROM THE WEST FLOODING IS LIKELY TO CONINNUE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AS REQUIRED. ACT QUICKLY TO SAVE YOURSELF...YOU MAY HAVE ONLY SECONDS. GET OUT OF AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING...INCLUDING DIPS...LOW SPOTS ...OR WASHES. AVOID ALREADY FLOODED AND HIGH VELOCITY AREAS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM. IF DRIVING...KNOW THE DEPTH OF THE WATER IN A DIP BEFORE CROSSING. THE ROAD BED MAY NOT BE INTACT UNDER THE WATER. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. RAPIDLY RISING WATER" MAY ENGULF THE VEHICLE. DIGIORGI
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, Feb 15, 4:36 AM CST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 433 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA TODAY. AT 430 AM SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS..WESTERN KENTUCKY AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA. MOST OF THE SHOWERS WERE CENTERED ON A LINE 50 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM MT VERNON ILLINOIS SOUTH THROUGH PADUCAH KENTUCKY TO THE KENTUCK`Y/TENN- ESSEE BORDER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. NOWCAST: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS..ARE LIKELY TODAY. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN STREAMS AND LOW-LYING AREAS. ES
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 5:38 AM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 533 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA TODAY AND FOR ALL OF WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 11 AM. AT 430 AM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY 25 TO 35 MPH WINDS...COVERED NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... WETSERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE INDICATED NEAR EVANSVILLE...10 MILES EAST OF MARION ILLINOIS AND JUST NORTHEAST OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. NOWCAST: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WILL OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES AND AROUND STREAMS. ES
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 5:42 AM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED FOR TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 533 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA TODAY AND FOR ALL OF WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 11 AM. AT 530 AM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY 25 TO 35 MPH WINDS...COVERED NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... WETSERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE INDICATED NEAR EVANSVILLE...10 MILES EAST OF MARION ILLINOIS AND JUST NORTHEAST OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. NOWCAST: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WILL OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES AND AROUND STREAMS. ES
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 6:41 AM CST, 24 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED FOR TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 637 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA TODAY AND FOR ALL OF WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 11 AM. AT 635 AM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY 25 TO 35 MPH WINDS...COVERED NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE INDICATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY AND FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PADUCAH NORTHEAST TO NEAR EVANSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NOWCAST: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WILL OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES AND AROUND STREAMS. ES
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 6:42 AM CST, 23 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 637 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA TODAY AND FOR ALL OF WESTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 11 AM. AT 635 AM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY 25 TO 35 MPH WINDS...COVERED NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE INDICATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY AND FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PADUCAH NORTHEAST TO NEAR EVANSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NOWCAST: SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...WILL OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE MO RNING. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN LOW-LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES AND AROUND STREAMS. ES
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 6:53 AM CST, 12 minutes before
MOZ022-023-ILZ013>015-KYZ001-151500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 700 AM CST THU FEB 15 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST KENTUCKY THIS MORNING... AT 630 AM PADUCAH POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS BALLARD COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED PONDING WATER ON MANY ROADS. AT 645 AM PADUCAH RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE. THE PRECIPITATION IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS MOVED TO THE EAST OF THE AREA. HEAVY RAIN OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS HAS FILLED ROAD SIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS CAUSING SOME TO SPILL OVER THEIR BANKS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND SO FLOODING IS A STRONG LIKLIHOOD. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD WATCH FOR RISING WATER LEVELS AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT CROSS ROADWAYS THAT ARE WATER COVERED...THE WATER MAY HAVE ERODED THEM MAKING THEM UNSAFE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DIGIORGI
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.