Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 1992, 4:43 AM EDT for Lawrence County, Ohio; Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1992, 4:43 AM EDT (08:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1992, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 684 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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 280846 FFWHTS KYC089-OHC087-281045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 443 AM EDT FRI AUG 28 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS. IN EAST KENTUCKY ...NORTHEASTERN GREENUP COUNTY IN SOUTH OHIO ...SOUTH CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING OVER NIGHT ACROSS THE REGION. DURING THE LAST HALF HOUR CLOSE TO AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN GREENUP COUNTY OF KENTUCKY AND IN SOUTH CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY OF OHIO. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 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 QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. HATFIELD
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, Aug 27, 11:08 PM EDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
KYZ008-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1105 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BELL..BREATHITT...CLAY...HARLAN...JACKSON ...KNOX...LEE...LESLIE...OWSLEY AND PERRY COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM EDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 11 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY...AND FROM THE MIDDLESBORO AREA NORTH TO AROUND LONDON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LARGE HAIL. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOU SHOULD MOVE INTO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...BE PREPARED TO DEAL WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GR OUND IF RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 11:09 PM EDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
KYZ008-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1105 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BELL..BREATHITT...CLAY...HARLAN...JACKSON ...KNOX...LEE...LESLIE...OWSLEY AND PERRY COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM EDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 11 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY...AND FROM THE MIDDLESBORO AREA NORTH TO AROUND LONDON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LARGE HAIL. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOU SHOULD MOVE INTO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...BE PREPARED TO DEAL WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GR"OUND IF RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 12:14 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
KYZ008-280500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1210 AM EDT FRI AUG 28 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BELL..BREATHITT...CLAY...HARLAN...JACKSON ...KNOX...LEE...LESLIE...OWSLEY AND PERRY COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM EDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT MIDNIGHT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE MIDDLESBORO AREA NORTH TO AROUND LONDON...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL OVER WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LARGE HAIL. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOU SHOULD MOVE INTO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...BE PREPARED TO DEAL WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 1:05 AM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
KYZ008-280600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 105 AM EDT FRI AUG 28 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BELL..BREATHITT...CLAY...HARLAN...JACKSON ...KNOX...LEE...LESLIE...OWSLEY AND PERRY COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM EDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 1 AM EDT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE MIDDLESBORO AREA TO JACKSON. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OVER WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LARGE HAIL. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOU SHOULD MOVE INTO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...BE PREPARED TO DEAL WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 1:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson | 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.