Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1992, 2:33 PM EDT for Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 72 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1992, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1992, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 72 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rowan County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLEX 271833 FFWLEX KYC205-272030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 233 PM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...ROWAN COUNTY AT 230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ACROSS EASTERN BATH AND ROWAN COUNTIES. OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE NOON ACROSS MUCH OF ROWAN COUNTY...WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN TO CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITY OF MOREHEAD...60 MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. KERR
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, Jul 27, 11:46 AM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
KYZ004-INZ015-271710- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 1145 AM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 ...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING IN THE LOUISVILLE METRO AREA... AT 11 40 AM EDT...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS OVER THE LOUISVILLE METRO AREA. MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN WAS SOUTH OF THE RIVER BUT SOME WAS STILL OCCURRING OVER THE NEW ALBANY AREA. JEFFERSON COUNTY POLICE REPORT NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS THIS MORNING AND PONDING OF WATER ON SOME ROADWAYS. RAIN WILL BE CONTINUING IN THE METRO AREA SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS BUT WILL BE GRADUALLY ENDING NORTH OF THE RIVER. THE RAIN COULD STILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES. LOCALIZED FLOODING <OF STREETS WILL BE POSSIBLE. USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN DRIVING AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS COVERED BY WATER. SCHOLZ
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 12:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
KYZ007-271700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1215 PM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 ...MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER ON FRANKFORT STREETS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1210 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY. IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...THE RAIN WAS MOSTLY WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON NEAR EWING... SOUTHWEST TO LEXINGTON...THEN TO NEAR DANVILLE...30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHWEST FRANKLIN COUNTY JUST WEST OF FRANKFORT. MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN WAS TO THE EAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS WILL LIKELY OCCUR ACROSS MUCH OF FRANKLIN COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF FRANKFORT ...THROUGH 2 PM EDT. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE INTO GEORGETOWN AND PORTIONS OF THE LEXINGTON AREA BY 115 PM. IF YOU ARE DRIVING THIS AFTERNOON...BE ALERT FOR AREAS OF PONDING WATER. IF WATER COVERS A ROADWAY...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS IT. KERR
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 12:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
KYZ007-271800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1255 PM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 ...MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING ACROSS LEXINGTON... FRANKFORT AND GEORGETOWN EARLY THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1250 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON NEAR MOREHEAD... THROUGH LEXINGTON...TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON NEAR HARRODSBURG. DUE TO THE RECENT HEAVY RAINS...MUCH OF THE RAIN WILL BECOME RUNOFF... RESULTING IN MINOR FLOODING OF CITY STREETS AND AREA CREEKS. BE CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. BE ALERT FOR PONDED WATER IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. IF A ROAD IS COVERED BY WATER DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS IT. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A CREEK...MONITOR WATER LEVELS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES. KERR
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 12:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
KYZ004-INZ015-271810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 1255 PM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 ...HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING EAST OF LOUISVILLE... AT 12 45 PM EDT...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING EAST OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE. THE RAINS WERE MOVING INTO SPENCER AND SHELBY COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITY OF SHEBYVILLE. THE RAIN HAD NEARLY ENDED ALONG AND NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER AND WILL BE ENDING OVER NEARLY ALL OF JEFFERSON COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 2 PM. RAIN WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES ACROSS SHELBY AND SPENCER COUNTIES THROUGH 2 PM THEN GRADUALLY DIMINISH. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS WILL BE POSSIBLE. USE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN DRIVING AND DO nNOT DRIVE INTO AREAS COVERED BY WATER. SCHOLZ
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 1:37 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
KYZ007-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 135PM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 ...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF THE EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON... AT 135PM EDT THERE WAS A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND HEAVIER SHOWERS MOVING EAST ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE PERSISTENT HEAVY RAIN ON SATURATED GROUND HAS CAUSED FLOODING OF MANY AREAS RESULTING IN BLOCKED ROADWAYS...FLOODED BASEMNENTS AND MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS. RAINFALL TODAY OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS BEEN COMMON OVER FRANKLIN SCOTT AND FAYETTE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION WITH MORE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN TO CONTINUE THRU THE MIDDLE AFTERNOODN HOURS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. BE READY TO EVACUATE HOMES IF RISING WATER THREATENS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATEST STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS.
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.