Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1992, 8:29 AM EDT for Estill County, Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 91 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 8:29 AM EDT (12:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Estill County, KY, Powell County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 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 KLEX 101238 FFWLEX KYC065-181-197-201-101430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 829 AM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...ESTILL COUNTY...NICHOLAS COUNTY...POWELL COUNTY ...ROBERTSON COUNTY 840AM RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING SOUTH TOWARD ROBERTSON AND NICHOLAS COUNTIES 30 TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. OTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO POWELL AND ESTILL COUNTIES 30 TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON BY 9AM EDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Madison | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 8:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 8:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 8:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Madison | 92 min |
| Aug 10, 8:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 92 min |
| Aug 10, 8:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 92 min |
| Aug 10, 8:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Nicholas, Robertson | 91 min |
| Aug 10, 8:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nicholas, Robertson | 91 min |
| Aug 10, 8:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Estill, Powell | 91 min |
| Aug 10, 5:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Woodford | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Scott | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Scott | 56 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.