Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 1991, 4:54 PM CST for Daviess County, McLean County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 1991, 4:54 PM CST (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1991, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Daviess County, KY, McLean County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 2208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Mar 22, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
INZ011>015-230300- AREAL OUTLINE FOR TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 55 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 250 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1990 IN INDIANA TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 55 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM VINCENNES TO 30 MILES NORTH OF MADISON...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF MADISON TO MADISON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE EVANSVILLE...TELL CITY...BEDFORD... BROWNSTOWN AND MADISON. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STEIGER\WALDT
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 1:55 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
INZ011>015-230300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 250 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 IN INDIANA TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 55 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM VINCENNES TO 30 MILES NORTH OF MADISON...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF MADISON TO MADISON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE EVANSVILLE...TELL CITY...BEDFORD... BROWNSTOWN AND MADISON. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STEIGEdRWALDT ...CORRECTED HEADING...
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 3:01 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
INZ011>015-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 359 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR PART OF SOUTHERN INDIANA. SOME CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE EVANSVILLE...TELL CITY... BROWNSTOWN AND MADISON. THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SHORTLY BEFORE 4PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING IN STRENGTH OVER SOUTHEAST MISSIOURI. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. WHEN WARNINGS ARE ISSUED BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR APARTMENT. MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED WHEN TORNADO WARNINGS ARE ISSUED DURING TORNADOES FOR A STURDY TORNADO SHELTER. EDWARDS
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 4:25 PM CST, 29 minutes before
INZALL-230000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 524 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR PART OF SOUTHERN INDIANA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR VERY DAMAGING TORNADOES IN AND NEAR THE TORNADO WATCH AREA. SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN CENTRAL INDIANA. AT 520 PM EST...SHOWERS...ALONG WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...WERE OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL INDIANA. THE RAIN ALSO EXTENDED INTO NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD VERY HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES OCCURRED OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA EARLY THIS MORNING. CONTINUED RAINFALL THIS EVENING...AND ESPECIALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...MAY CAUSE FLOODING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. . THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY AND WILL LIKELY MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR...GIVING PEOPLE VERY LITTLE TIME TO REACT. BE READY TO QUICKLY MOVE TO SHELTER IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES. MOBILE HOMES ARE MOST VULNERABLE IN TORNADOES AND SHOULD BE ABANDONDED BEFORE THE STORM ARRIVES. REPORT FLOODING.7..HAIL...OR DAMAGING WIND TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. PBG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Union | 29 min |
| Mar 22, 1:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Grayson, Ohio | 34 min |
| Mar 22, 3:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Allen, Barren | 34 min |
| Mar 22, 10:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Christian | 31 min |
| Mar 22, 10:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Muhlenberg, Todd | 33 min |
| Mar 22, 11:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Union | 29 min |
| Mar 22, 11:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Union | 28 min |
| Mar 22, 11:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Henderson | 58 min |
| Mar 22, 11:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henderson, Union | 58 min |
| Mar 22, 12:47 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Henderson, Union | 118 min |
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.