Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 1992, 5:50 AM EDT for McCreary County, Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1992, 5:50 AM EDT (09:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1992, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McCreary County, KY, Wayne County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 090951 FFWSDF KYC147-231-091045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 550 AM EDT SUN AUG 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...MCCREARY COUNTY...EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY AT 545 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH WAS LIKELY PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOMERSET NEAR MONTICELLO IN NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL TRACK INTO THE TOWNS OF WHITLEY CITY AND STEARNS BY 610 AM EDT. LIGHTNING IS THE SINGLE WORST KILLER WITHIN A THUNDERSTORM ...SO STAY INDOORS AND AVOID USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY ...SO AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. KIRKPATRICK
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 9, 12:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
KYZ007-090600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1255 AM EDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 1255 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY SOUTH OF LEXINGTON...ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS 5 MILES WEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IF A STORM SHOULD APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. RIECK
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 1:29 AM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
KYZ007-090700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 130 AM EDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 130 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR IRVINE... ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. OTHER STORMS WERE LOCATED AROUND HARRODSBURG AND RICHMOND. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IF A STORM SHOULD APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. RIECK
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 2:55 AM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
KYZ007-090800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 255 AM EDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS EXITING EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 255 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND...30 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL EXIT MADISON AND GARRAD COUNTIES BY 330 PM EDT. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF A STORM SHOULD APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. RIECK
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 2:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
KYZ007-090800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 255 AM EDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS EXITING EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 255 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND...30 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL EXIT MADISON AND GARRAD COUNTIES BY 330 AM EDT. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF A STORM SHOULD APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. RIECK
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:12 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
KYZ001-003-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 500 AM EDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...HEAT INDEX WILL TOP 105 THIS AFTERNOON IN WEST KENTUCKY... HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM 93 TO 97 THIS AFTERNOON OVER WEST KENTUCKY COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY VALUES WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDICES IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE. THIS MEANS THAT THE APPARENT EFFECT OF THE TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY ON THE BODY WILL APPROXIMATE AN ACTUAL TEMPERATURE GREATER THAN 105 DEGREES. SOME CITIES THAT WILL REACH THESE DANGEROUS LEVELS OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY THIS AFTERNOON ARE PADUCAH...MAYFIELD...MURRAY...MADISONVILLE ...HENDERSON AND OWENSBORO. IF YOU ARE WORKING OR PLAYING OUTDOORS THIS AFTERNOON...TRY TO REDUCE YOUR ACTIVITY AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER. IF YOU ARE ELDERLY OR IN POOR HEALTH STAY INDOORS UNDER AIR CONDITIONING IF POSSIBLE. > LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR ADVISORIES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. KIRKPATRICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 5:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | McCreary, Wayne | 55 min |
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.