Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1992, 12:11 PM EDT for Jackson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1992, 12:11 PM EDT (16:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 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 KJKL 181611
FFWJKL
KYC109-181815-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1211 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KENTUCKY
JACKSON
AT 1200 NOON EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAIN IN PARTS OF JACKSON COUNTY...30 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. IN THE
LAST HOUR...THIS STORM PRODUCED 1.97 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE SAND GAP
AREA...8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCKEE.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADS. 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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JACKSOM COUNTY
UNTIL 1230 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST
KENTYCKY THIS AFTERNOON.
ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF
SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN JACKSON
SMITHWhat 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, Jun 18, 10:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
KYZ008-151545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1040 AM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1030 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SPREAD ACROSS KENTUCKY FROM THE ASHLAND AREA TO LEXINGTON...TO JUST SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE WINCHESTER/RICHMOND AREA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL APPROACH JACKSON...LEE...WOLFE AND MORGAN COUNTIES BY 1200 NOON. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS TO A SAFE SHELTER...AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS...AND REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. HEAVY RAINS WITH THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING SO IF YOU ARE INA FLOOD PRONE...OR LOW LYING AREA...YOU SHOULD MONITOR WATjER LEVELS CLOSELY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 11:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 63 min |
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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.