Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Dec 2, 1991, 7:37 PM CST for Barren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 2, 1991, 7:37 PM CST (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 1991, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barren County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 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 030139 FFWEVV KYC009-030445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 737 PM CST MON DEC 2 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BARREN COUNTY AT 734 PM CST...GLASGOW POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED SOUTH GREEN...GARMAN...MILTON...AND CLEMENTS STREETS IN GLASGOW CITY LIMITS REMAINED FLOODED AND CLOSED. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN RE-ISSUED DUE TO CONTINUOUS RAINFALL OVER THE AREA. SEEK HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 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. TT
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 2, 2:57 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
INZALL-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 355 PM EST MON DEC 2 1991 A SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST AND FAR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT. A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA THIS EVENING. A MIXTURE OF RAIN AND FREEZING RAIN WAS FALLING OVER NORTHERN INDIANA AT 4 PM EST. THE MIXED PRECIPITATION WAS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LAFAYETTE TO FORT WAYNE. SOUTH OF THIS LINE RAIN WAS FALLING. IN FAR NORTHWEST INDIANA LIGHT SNOW WAS OCCURRING AT 4 PM EST. THE FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO RAIN BY MIDNIGHT OVER NORTHEAST AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE IN NORTHWEST INDIANA DURING THE NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL HOVER AROUND FREEZING IN NORTHERN INDIANA THIS EVENING. BRIDGES...AND SOME ROADS WILL BECOME SLICK AND HAZARDOUS OVER NORTHERN INDIANA. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE EXTRA CAREFUL TONIGHT. SLOW DOWN...AND LEAVE EXTRA ROOM BETWEEN YOUR CAR AND THE CAR AHEAD. HARLEY
Special weather statement, Dec 2, 4:15 PM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
INZALL-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 515 PM EST MON DEC 2 1991 A SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST AND FAR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT. A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA THIS EVENING. AT 5 PM EST FREEZING RAIN WAS WIDESPREAD OVER NORTH INDIANA. THE SOUTHERN EXTENT OF FREEZING RAIN WAS FROM ABOUT FORT WAYNE IN NORTHEAST INDIANA...TO MONTICELLO...WHICH IS 20 MILES NORTH OF LAFAYETTE...IN NORTHWEST INDIANA. SNOW WAS ALSO FALLING IN EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA. SOME ROADS IN NORTHWEST INDIANA ARE SLIPPERY. THE JASPER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED ROADS WERE BECOMING ICY. FURTHER SOUTH IN INDIANA...WHERE TEMPERATURES WERE A FEW DEGREES ABOVE FREEZING...THE WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION WAS FALLING AS RAIN. FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA THIS EVENING. PEOPLE OUT AND ABOUT IN NORTHERN INDIANA TONIGHT SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF ICY STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. ELSON
Special weather statement, Dec 2, 5:23 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
INZALL-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 623 PM EST MON DEC 2 1991 A SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST AND FAR NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT. A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA THIS EVENING. AT 610 PM EST FREEZING RAIN WAS FALLING OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAFAYETTE...TO FORT WAYNE. IN SOME AREAS OF EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA THE FREEZING RAIN WAS MIXING WITH SLEET AND SNOW. IN AREAS FURTHER SOUTH IN INDIANA RAIN WAS STILL FALLING...BUT WAS SLOWLY DIMINISHING IN INTENSITY. ICE HAS BEGUN TO ACCUMULATE ON TREES AND POWER LINES IN NORTHERN INDIANA...AND IN SOME AREAS ROADS AND SIDEWALKS WERE BECOMING ICY. THE ICY CONDITIONS WERE REPORTED AS FAR SOUTH AS CARROLL AND BENTON COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. AS TEMPERATURES RISE EVER SO SLOWLY THIS EVENING...THE LINE BETWEEN FREEZING RAIN TO THE NORTH AND RAIN TO THE SOUTH WILL SHIFT SLOWLY NORTH IN NORTHEAST INDIANA...WHILE IN NORTHWEST INDIANA LITTLE MOVEMENT IN THE LINE IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING. IF YOU MUST GO OUT THIS EVENING IN NORTHERN INDIANA...WHETHER WALKING OR DRIVING...BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS. ELSON
Special weather statement, Dec 2, 6:36 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before
INZALL-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 735 PM EST MON DEC 2 1991 SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT. THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 730 PM EST FREEZING RAIN WAS STILL FALLING OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. IN BOTH WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST INDIANA THE PRECIPITATION HAS CHANGED COMPLETELY OVER TO RAIN...HOWEVER A LITTLE LIGHT FREEZING RAIN WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER OF NORTHEAST INDIANA FOR A FEW MORE HOURS. ADDITIONALLY...PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN GENERALLY DECREASING IN INTENSITY OVER MOST OF INDIANA...EXCEPT IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE. . THE CASS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE HAS REPORTED THAT A TREE AND POWER LINE WERE DOWN TO ICE. SLICK ROADS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. IF YOU MUST GO OUT THIS EVENING IN NORTHERN INDIANA...WHETHER WALKING OR DRIVING...BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS. ELSON
Special weather statement, Dec 2, 7:33 PM CST, 4 minutes before
INZALL-030400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 833 PM EST MON DEC 2 1991 A SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA TONIGHT. AT 820 PM EST LIGHT FREEZING RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. MANY ROADS IN THE NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL PART OF INDIANA ARE ALREADY ICY...MAKING TRAVEL DANGEROUS. FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHWEST INDIANA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THE PRECIPITATION WILL EVENTUALLY CHANGE OVER TO SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. IF YOU MUST GO OUT IN THESE AREAS...BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL...BOTH WALKING AND DRIVING. DE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 6:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Christian | 4 hr |
| Dec 2, 6:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Grayson | 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.