Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 1992, 11:41 PM CDT for Adair County, Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 1992, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 1992, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adair County, KY, Russell County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 190442 FFWSDF KYC001-207-190645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1241 AM EDT SAT SEP 19 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...ADAIR COUNTY...RUSSELL COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR HAVE GENERATED NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. HIWAYS 61 AND 55...AS WELL AS 704 SOUTH OF COLUMBIA IN ADAIR COUNTY HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY HIGH WATER. HIWAY 704 WAS COVERED BY 3 FEET OF WATER IN ONE LOCATION. SOME FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED IN RUSSELL COUNTY...BUT DETAILS WERE STILL BEING GATHERED. THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY PROGRESSING SOUTHEAST...SO RAIN WILL BE DECREASING BY 1230 AM CDT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLO$OD 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. REITMEYER
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, Sep 18, 7:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
KYZ004-190145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 848 PM EDT FRI SEP 18 1992 WEATHER RADAR DETECTS AN EXTENSIVE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM CENTRAL KENTUCKY NORTHEAST INTO OHIO NORTHEAST OF CINCINNATI. THE MOST CONCENTRATED AREA OF RAIN AT 830 PM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY NEAR SPRINGFIELD AND WASHINGTON COUNTY AND OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF MARION COUNTY AROUND 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE DURING PAST 30 MINUTES ENDING AT 845. AT THE PRESENT TIME NO WARNINGS OR WATCHES OF ANY KIND ARE IN EFFECT FOR ANY PART OF KENTUCKY. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING IN ADVANCE OF A COOLER AIR MASS NOW MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN INDIANA. COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO KENTUCKY LATER TONIGHT ENDING ALL CHANCES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL.. CONGER
Local storm report, Sep 18, 8:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
850 PM EDT FRI SEP 18 1992
730 PM EDT MJR DAMAGE TO OFF DUTY TROOPERS HOUSE AND CAR IN OR NR
BROOKS IN NRN BULLET COUNTY JUST TO THE SOUTH OF SDF.
755 PM EDT FOLLOWUP CALL...MJR DAMAGE TO 3 OR FOUR HOMES IN OR NEAR
BROOKS IN NRN BULLET COUNTY. ROOF FROM NEW HOUSE UNDER
CONSTRUCTION BLOWN OVER AND LANDED ON TWO CARS IN THE
* DRIVEWAY.
ALEX BEAUVOISSpecial weather statement, Sep 18, 8:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
KYZ002-004-009-190145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 920 PM EDT FRI SEP 18 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS TAYLOR AND MARION COUNTIES IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY KENTUCKY... WEATHER RADAR AT LOUISVILLE WAS INDICATING A TEN TO 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM BOWLING GREEN TO LEXINGTON. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS IN TAYLOR AND MARION COUNTIES ABOUT 40 MILE NORTHWEST OF SOMMERSET. THE STvORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. PERSONS IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE STREET AND LOWLAND FLOODING IN THE STRONGER STORMS. AB
Special weather statement, Sep 18, 9:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
KYZ007-190400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1025 PM EDT FRI SEP 18 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 1025 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM AROUND CARLISE...30 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...TO WEST OF FLEMINGSBURG...ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. RIECK
Special weather statement, Sep 18, 9:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
KYZ007-190400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1025 PM EDT FRI SEP 18 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 1025 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM AROUND CARLISE...30 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...TO EAST OF FLEMINGSBURG...ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. RIECK ...CORRECTED LOCATION...
Special weather statement, Sep 18, 11:11 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
KYZ009-190610- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1210 AM EDT SAT SEP 19 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... A NUMBER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AT MIDNIGHT AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THE STORMS WERE MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE CUMBERLAND PARKWAY WEST OF SOMERSET. ONE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET...JUST WEST OF LIBERTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST ABOUT 30 MPH...AND WERE PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND EVEN SMALL HAIL IN A COUPLE OF STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...STAY INSIDE UNTIL IT PASSES. REITMEYER
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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.