Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1993, 8:48 AM EST for Magoffin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 1993, 8:48 AM EST (13:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 1993, 11:45 AM EST
- 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, 1.8 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
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2902 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 KJKL 041348
FFWJKL
KYC153-041645-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
848 AM EST THU MAR 4 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KENTUCKY
MAGOFFIN
AT 840 AM EST...MOST STREAMS IN MAGOFFIN COUNTY WERE AT BANKFULL
AND CONTINUING RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OVER THE NEXT 3 HOURS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADS. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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
ROAD. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM..EVEN A SMALL ONE..ON
FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER..MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF
SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN JACKSON
LINDQUIST/SMITHWhat 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, Mar 4, 4:24 AM EST, 4 hours 24 minutes before
KYZ008-041400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 422 AM EST THU MAR 04 1993 ...PATCHY DENSE FOG ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY EARLY THIS MORNING... STATE AND LOCAL POLICE REPORT PATCHY DENSE FOG ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY EARLY THIS MORNING. THE VISIBILITY AT THE JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE WAS DOWN TO 1/16 MILE AT TIMES. IN ADDITION...WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WAS LIMITING VISIBILITIES EVEN MORE. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING EARLY THIS MORNING...DRIVE WITH CAUTION. BE ALERT TO REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. ALSO...BE AWARE OF SCHOOL BUSES PICKING UP CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION. THE PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MID MORNING WITH LIGHT RAIN CONTINUING MOST OF THE DAY. TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 40S WILL COOL INTO THE LOWER 40S THIS AFTERNOON AS WINDS SHIFT TO THE WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR T0HE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUETTL
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 7:29 AM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
KYZ008-041700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 728 AM EST THU MAR 04 1993 ...PATCHY DENSE FOG AND RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS THE COALFIELDS... PATCHY DENSE FOG CONTINUED TO AFFECT TRAVEL ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY EARLY THIS MORNING. IN ADDITION...WIDESPREAD STEADY LIGHT RAINS WERE CAUSING SOME SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS TO REACH NEAR BANKFUL LEVELS. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING THIS MORNING BE ALERT TO REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND TO PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AREA THAT IS PRONE TO FLOODING...KEEP AN EYE ON WATER LEVELS. PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL SLOWLY DISSIPATE THIS MORNING BUT LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THEH DAY. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL INTO THE LOWER 40S BY AFTERNOON AND WINDS WILL BE WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUETTL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 9:48 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Morgan | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 1:21 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 3 hr |
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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.