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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY

May 20, 1992Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 20, 1992, 4:51 PM EDT for Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 20, 1992, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 272 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1992-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1992-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, May 20, 2:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
KYZ004-009-201930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
230 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 1992

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN SLOW-MOVING STORMS OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

AT 220 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY.  THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN
WERE 30 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH AND NORTHEAST
OF LIBERTY KENTUCKY.  MORE HEAVY RAIN WAS SOUTH OF ELIZABETHTOWN NEAR
THE GREEN RIVER.

THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS THE REASON FOR LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL.  ISOLATED SPOTS COULD RECEIVE MORE THAN ONE INCH OF RAIN IN
ONE HOUR RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS.  WATER RISES IN LOCAL
CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

IF YOU ARE IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON...BE PREPARED FOR THE
POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN DURING THUNDERSTORMS.  THIS COULD CAUSE
VISIBILITY AND WATER PROBLEMS FOR DRIVERS.  IF YOU ARE NEAR A CREEK
OR STREAM...MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY.

TUCEK
Special weather statement, May 20, 2:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
KYZ004-009-201930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
240 PM EDT WED MAY 20 1992

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN SLOW-MOVING STORMS OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

AT 220 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY.  THE STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVIEST RAIN
WERE 30 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH AND NORTHEAST
OF LIBERTY KENTUCKY.  MORE HEAVY RAIN WAS SOUTH OF ELIZABETHTOWN NEAR
THE GREEN RIVER.

THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS THE REASON FOR LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL.  ISOLATED SPOTS COULD RECEIVE MORE THAN ONE INCH OF RAIN IN
ONE HOUR RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS.  WATER RISES IN LOCAL
CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

IF YOU ARE IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON...BE PREPARED FOR THE
POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN DURING THUNDERSTORMS.  THIS COULD CAUSE
VISIBILITY AND WATER PROBLEMS FOR DRIVERS.  IF YOU ARE NEAR A CREEK
OR STREAM...MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY.

TUCEK

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.