Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 1991, 7:30 AM EST for Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 1991, 7:30 AM EST (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1991, 9:30 AM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 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 KHTS 221231
FFWHTS
OHC087-221430-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
730 AM EST FRI MAR 22 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH OHIO
...LAWRENCE
SUPERINTENDENT OF SOUTH POINT SCHOOLS REPORT MANY ROADWAYS IN THE
SOUTH POINT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
CICXCONEWhat 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, 2:36 AM EST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
KYZ008-220900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 235 AM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD KNOX COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WHITLEY COUNTY...40 MILES WEST OF MIDDLESBORO...WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO KNOX COUNTY BY 300 AM AND WILL PASS NEAR BARBOURVILLE...20 MILES NORTH OF MIDDLESBORO...BY 330 AM. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM YOU SHOULD SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHERN COMMUNTIES OF MORGAN COUNTY BY 1130 PM. SMITH
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 2:38 AM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes before
KYZ008-220900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...C O R R E C T E D NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 235 AM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD KNOX COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WHITLEY COUNTY...40 MILES WEST OF MIDDLESBORO...WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO KNOX COUNTY BY 300 AM AND WILL PASS NEAR BARBOURVILLE...20 MILES NORTH OF MIDDLESBORO...BY 330 AM. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM YOU SHOULD SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED THROUGH YOUR LOCATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 2:58 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes before
KYZ008-220900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 255 AM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN KNOX AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 255 AM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY ...35 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS IN CENTRAL KNOX COUNTY NEAR BARBOURVILLE...20 MILES NORTH OF MIDDLESBORO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THROUGH 4 AM...THE STORM IN JACKSON COUNTY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH LEE AND WOLFE COUNTIES TO NEAR WEST LIBERTY IN MORGAN COUNTY...25 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. THE STORM IN KNOX COUNTY WILL MOVE THROUGH LESLIE COUNTY TO NEAR HAZARD...IN PERRY COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATHS OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS YOU SHOULD SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY INSIDE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED YOUR LOCATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 4:07 AM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
KYZ008-221000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 405 AM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... AT 4 AM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED RUMBLING ACROSS THE COALFIELDS. A STORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIDDLESBORO IN BELL COUNTY. ANOTHER HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY...15 MILES SOUTH OF HAZARD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THROUGH 5 AM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THESE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADS...AND SOME SMALL STREAM AND DITCH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 6:13 AM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
KYZ008-221200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 610 AM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL KENTUCKY TOWARD THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS JUST MOVING INTO EXTREME WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY...40 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THROUGH 7 AM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WILL SPREAD INTO THE JACKSON...HAZARD AND MIDDLESBORO AREA. IN THE AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN...MOTORISTS SHOULD WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. SOME SMALL ST'REAM AND DITCH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 6:19 AM EST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
KYZ008-221200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 610 AM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 6 AM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL KENTUCKY TOWARD THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS JUST MOVING INTO EXTREME WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY...40 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THROUGH 7 AM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WILL SPREAD INTO THE JACKSON...HAZARD AND MIDDLESBORO AREAS. IN THE AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN...MOTORISTS SHOULD WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER ON RO-ADS. SOME SMALL STREAM AND DITCH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 8:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Lawrence, Scioto | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 8:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Gallia | 3 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.