Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1993, 1:08 PM EDT for Magoffin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1993, 1:08 PM EDT (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1993, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Magoffin County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, Jun 4, 10:35 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
KYZ008-041530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1035 AM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE HEADING TOWARD SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 1030 AM...RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON NEAR WINCHESTER. THOSE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL THREATEN LEE...WOLFE AND MORGAN COUNTIES SHORTLY AFTER 1100 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...HAIL...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE INTO THE COUNTIES TO THE NORTHWEST OF JACKSON. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE JACKSON AREA AROUND 1130 AM. IF A THREATENING STORM APPROACHES...SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:38 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
KYZ008-041530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1035 AM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE HEADING TOWARD SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 1030 AM...RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON NEAR WINCHESTER. THOSE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL THREATEN LEE...WOLFE AND MORGAN COUNTIES SHORTLY AFTER 1100 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...HAIL...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE INTO THE COUNTIES TO THE NORTHWEST OF JACKSON. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE JACKSON AREA AROUND 1130 AM. IF A THREATENING STORM APPROACHES...SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 11:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 11:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Lawrence | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 12:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 12:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lawrence | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lewis | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Greenup | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 2:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pike | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Owsley | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Leslie, Perry | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Knox | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Wayne | 115 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.