Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 2, 1991, 5:49 PM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 2, 1991, 5:49 PM EST (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 1991, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Knox County, KY, Leslie County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 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, Dec 2, 12:12 PM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 12:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 6 hr |
| Dec 2, 1:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Letcher | 5 hr |
| Dec 2, 1:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan | 5 hr |
| Dec 2, 1:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd | 4 hr |
| Dec 2, 2:46 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Leslie, Perry | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 2:46 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 2:46 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knott | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson, Martin | 6 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 2 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Pike | 4 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Perry | 4 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan, Letcher | 2 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.