Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1991, 10:34 AM CDT for Union County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1991, 10:34 AM CDT (15:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1991, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Union County, KY, Webster County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 935 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 KEVV 211535 FFWEVV KYC225-233-211930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 1034 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY ...UNION COUNTY...WEBSTER COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN UNION AND WEBSTER COUNTIES OF WESTERN KENTUCKY AT 1030 AM CDT. RAIN WAS FALLING AT THE RATE OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN HOPKINS COUNTY OF WESTERN KENTUCKY EARLIER THIS MORNING. URBAN AREAS WILL BE ESPECIALLY HARD HIT WITH THE HEAVY RAIN. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 21, 9:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 900 AM EST FRI JUN 21 1991 THUNDERSTORMS WERE DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAIN ON PARTS OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA JUST BEFORE 9AM EST. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE OCCURRING FROM SWITZ CITY AND BLOOMFIELD...DOWN TO NEWBERRY...ELNORA...ODON AND LOOGOOTEE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO OVER CRANE NAVAL WEAPONS SUPPORT CENTER. OTHER STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE SCATTERED FROM AROUND WASHINGTON...DOWN TO JASPER. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING VERY SLOWLY NORTHEAST OR EAST...AND ARE CAPABLE OF DUMPING UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN ON ANY GIVEN SPOT IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. LOCAL STREET FLOODING CAN OCCUR AND WATxER WILL BE PONDING ON ROADS. GRAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 9:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hopkins | 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.