Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 9, 1990, 7:10 AM CDT for Fulton County, Hickman County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 9, 1990, 7:10 AM CDT (12:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 1990, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, KY, Hickman 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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 203 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 091212 FFWPAH KYC075-105-091500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 0710 AM CDT TUE OCT 09 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF WESTERN KENTUCKY...FULTON AND HICKMAN AT 700 AM CDT...FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY THE HICKMAN KENTUCKY POLICE DEPARTMENT IN FULTON COUNTY AND IN SOUTHERN HICKMAN COUNTY. HIGHWAYS NUMBERED 166,125,94E-W WERE REPORTED TO HAVE WATER OVER THEM. MANY OTHER LOW LYING AREAS WERE ALSO FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AS REQUIRED. AS MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS MORE FLOODING COULD OCCUR. 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. LINDSTROM
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, Oct 9, 3:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-090945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 341 AM CDT TUE OCT 9 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY TODAY... AT 325 AM CDT...THERE WERE RAIN SHOWERS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE RAIN SHOWERS WERE WITHIN 20 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI...NORTHEAST TO EVANSVILLE...AND FURTHER NORTHEAST TO FRENCH LICK INDIANA. THE RAIN SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SUMMY
Special weather statement, Oct 9, 5:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-091145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 537 AM CDT TUE OCT 9 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY TODAY... AT 525 AM CDT...THERE WERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF WESTERN KENTUCKY TO THE NORTH OF THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY FROM PADUCAH TO NEAR HARDINSBURG. IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM MARION ILLINOIS TO CARMI ILLINOIS. THERE WERE ALSO A FEW THUNDERSTORMS AROUND FRENCH LICK INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LOCAL URBAN FLOODING WHERE DRAINAGE IS POOR. REPORT ANY SERIOUS FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. . THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ALSO AT 525 AM CDT...LIGHT RAIN COVERED% MOST OF THE REST OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND WAS BEGINNING TO SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA FROM TERRE HAUTE SOUTHWARD TO EVANSVILLE. SUMMY
Special weather statement, Oct 9, 6:39 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
INZ011-014-KYZ002-003-ILZ012-014-091245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 638 AM CDT TUE OCT 9 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY TODAY... AT 625 AM CDT...THERE WERE THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CLUSTERED FROM STURGIS AND DAWSON SPRINGS KENTUCKY NORTHWARD TO DECKER AND HUNTINGBURG INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DUMPING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL LIKELY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN URBAN AREAS AND WHERE DRAINAGE IS POOR. PLEASE REPORT ANY SERIOUS FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. IF YOU ARE DRIVING AND COME UPON WATER OVER THE ROAD...TURN AROUND AND USE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. YOU DONT KNOW HOW DEEP THE WATER MAY BE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ALSO AT 625 AM CDT...LIGHT RAIN COVERED MOST OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST IDIANfA FROM TERRE HAUTE TO FRENCH LICK. SUMMY
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.