Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 1992, 6:49 AM CST for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1992, 6:49 AM CST (12:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1992, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 100 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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 KEVV 101250 RRA FFWEVV KYC227-101645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 649 AM CST TUE MAR 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...WARREN COUNTY AT 648 AM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE MOVING INTO THE BOWLING GREEN AREA. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRAITON IN BOWLING GREEN REPORTED ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH IN RAIN FELL BETWEEN 630 AM AND CST 640 AM CST...THERE WAS NO DECREASE IN INTENSITY OF RAINFALL AT 645 AM CST. THIS RAIN COMBINED WITH RECENT HEAVY RAINS WILL RESULT IN RAPID FLOODING. PERSONS IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATLY. 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. HOOPER
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 10, 3:40 AM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
INZ001>003-101230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 440 AM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 A SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST INDIANA FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WEATHER ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHEAST INDIANA FOR TODAY. THE ADVISORY AREAS IS FOR THAT PART OF INDIANA NORTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF GARY TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF FORT WAYNE. VERY COLD ARCTIC AIR BLOWING ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT LAKE EFFECT SNOWS OVER NORTHWEST INDIANA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE MAY BE AS MUCH AS 4 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF LAKE MICHIGAN BY LATE TONIGHT. TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF SNOW MAY FALL THERE BY THIS EVENING. OVER THE REMAINDER OF EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE AROUND 2 INCHES TODAY. FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET EARLY THIS MORNING MAY ALSO PRODUCE SLICK ROADS. WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL ALS#O PRODUCE SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. MOTORISTS TRAVELING TODAY...SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. YOU WILL ALSO WANT TO DRESS VERY WARMLY AS WIND CHILLS WILL BE DROPPING TO BELOW ZERO. HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 5:33 AM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
INZ001>009-101330 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 630 AM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 A WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA FOR TODAY. IN EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA THERE IS A SNOW ADVISORY FOR BOTH TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHORTLY AFTER 6 AM...FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET EXTENDED FROM SOUTH BEND TO LAFAYATTE AND CRAWFORDSVILLE. SNOW WAS FALLING OVER THE EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF OUR STATE. AN OBSERVER IN MONTICELLO AROUND 6 AM REPORTED THAT GRASSY AREAS WERE BECOMING WHITE WITH SLEET. STATE POLICE REPORTED THAT ROADS OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA HAD SCATTERED ICY SPOTS. THE PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW IN THE LAFAYATTE AND KOKOMO AREAS BY MID MORNING...AND IN THE FORT WAYNE AND INDIANAPOLIS AREAS BY LATE MORNING. SOME FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OCCUR IN THESE AREAS BEFORE THE CHANGEOVER. BECAUSE OF THE WARM ROAD SURFACES...DRIVING HAS NOT BECOME A MAJOR PROBLEM YET. HOWEVER MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. YOU WILL ALSO WANT TO DRESS VERY WARMLY AS WIND CHILLS WILL BE DROPPING TO NEAR OR BELOW ZERO. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS LATER TODAY WILL RANGE FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OVER EXTREME NOaRTHWEST INDIANA AND AROUND TWO INCHES IN THE REMAINDER OF THE NORTH. IN CENTRAL INDIANA SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH OR LESS MAY OCCUR BY LATE AFTERNOON. HENDRICKSON
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 6:28 AM CST, 21 minutes before
INZ001>009-011-101930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 727 AM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 WEATHER ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED TO INCLUDE MUCH OF INDIANA ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM VINCENNES TO PORTLAND THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. A WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE DAY IN EXTREME NORTHERN INDIANA...AND FOR BOTH TODAY AND TONIGHT IN EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA. SHORTLY AFTER 700 AM EST A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WAS OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW WAS OCCURRING WITHIN 30 MILES OF INDIANAPOLIS. THE PRECIPITATION HAS CHANGED OVER TO ALL SNOW AT LAFAYATTE AND THE VISIBILITY THERE WAS DOWN TO A HALF OF A MILE. THE PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW IN THE FORT WAYNE AND INDIANAPOLIS AREAS BY LATE MORNING. SOME FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OCCUR IN THESE AREAS BEFORE THE CHANGEOVER. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. YOU WILL ALSO WANT TO DRESS VERY WARMLY AS WIND CHILLS WILL BE DROPPING TO NEAR OR BELOW ZERO. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS LATER TODAY WILL RANGE FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST INDIANA AND AROUND TWO INCHES IN THE REMAINDER OF THE NORTH. IN CENTRAL INDIANA SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE AROUND AN INCH. HENDRICKSON
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.