Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 1991, 9:00 AM EST for Cabell County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 1991, 9:00 AM EST (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1991, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
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, 4:07 AM EST, 4 hours 53 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, 2 hours 47 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, 2 hours 41 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, 7:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Lawrence | 2 hr |
| 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 |
| Mar 22, 7:16 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Cabell, Wayne | 119 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.