Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY
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.
- 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
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
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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.