Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 1991, 8:15 PM EDT for Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1991, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1991, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1052 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KSDF 030012
FFWSDF
KYC217-030215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
812 PM EDT MON SEP 2 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KENTUCKY
TAYLOR
LOUISVILLE RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW VERY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS
THAT ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS IN TAYLOR COUNTY. CAMPBELLSVILLE
911 REPORTED CONSIDERABLE PONDING OF WATER OVER ROADWAYS IN
CAMPBELLSVILLE AND AREAS OF TAYLOR COUNTY TO THE EAST. ALTHOUGH
THE ACTIVITY IS STARTING TO DIMINISH...FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE
DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. BUCKHORN CREEK IN CAMPBELLSVILLE
IS NOW OUT OF ITS BANKS DUE TO A THREE INCH RAINFALL.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
ABWhat 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, Sep 2, 3:15 PM EDT, 5 hours before
KYZ004-022007- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 308 PM EDT MON SEP 2 1991 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. AT 235 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 46 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE...IN SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY. THE STORM WAS 10 MILES EAST OF SPRINGFIELD KENTUCKY. THIS STORM IS A SLOW MOVING STORM. THERE COULD BE HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM...IN SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY.P LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER AND MIONOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ARE POSSIBLE. IF YOU SEE THIS STORM APPROACH...GO INSIDE. LIGHTNING IS DEADLY. BE ALERT FOR MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND REDUCED VISIBILITITES. < < < < < <WILSON
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 5:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
KYZ009-022310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 514 PM EDT MON SEP 2 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVR LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 510 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING IN EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...JUST WEST OF THE ROCKCASTLE COUNTY LINE...ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET. THE STORM WAS SHOWING VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE LIKELY OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER AND MIONOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ARE POSSIBLE. VERY HEAVY RAINS AND PONDING OF WATER ARE LIKELY OVER THE EASTERN PARTS OF LINCOLN COUNTY AND WESTERN ROCKCASTLE. IF THE WEATHER BECOMES THREATENING SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY. OVER THE REST OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED...MAINLY AROUND THE SOMERSET AREA...NEAR MOUNT VERNON AND IN THE WEST FROM COLUMBIA TO ALBANY. SCHOLZ
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 7:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
KYZ009-030110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 710 PM EDT MON SEP 2 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING NEAR CAMPBELLSVILLE... AT 7 PM EDT...SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER EASTERN TAYLOR COUNTY...JUST TO THE EAST OF CAMPBELLSVILLE...OR 30 TO 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET. THE STORMS WERE MOVING LITTLE AND LIKELY CONTANED VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER AND MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE LITTLE FOR THROUGH 8 PM THEN GRADUALLY WEAKEN. IF THE WEATHER BECOMES THREATENING...SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY INDOORS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMSA WERE SCATTERED OVER THE REGION TO THE WEST OF COLUMBIA AND BURKESVILLE WHILE TO THE EAST SKIES WERE PARTLY CLOUDY. THESE SHOWERS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH. SCHOLZ
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 7:44 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
KYZ009-030110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 745 PM EDT MON SEP 2 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING NEAR CAMPBELLSVILLE... AT 740 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER TAYLOR COUNTY NEAR CAMPBELLSVILLE...35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET. THE STORMS WERE MOVING LITTLE AND HAD EXPANDED TO THE WEST AND EAST SINCE 715 PM. VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE FALLING FROM THESE STORMS AND CONSIDERABLE PONDING OF WATER WAS REPORTED IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF CAMPBELLSVILLE. GUSTY WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED WITH SOME TREES BEING BLOWN DOWN EARLIER THIS EVENING. STORMS WILL CONTINUE IN AROUND THE CAMPBELLSVILLLE AREA THROUGH 8 30 PM. IF THE WEATHER BECOMES UNUSUALLY THREATENING SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY INDOORS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH AREAS COVERED WITH WATER AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF STREAMS AND CREEKS START TO RISE. SCHOLZ
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.