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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Jackson, KY

March 4, 1993Breathitt County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1993, 1:21 PM EST for Breathitt County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 1993, 1:21 PM EST (18:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 1993, 4:01 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Breathitt County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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, Mar 4, 7:29 AM EST, 5 hours 52 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
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 1:06 PM EST, 15 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 8:48 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMagoffin3 hr
Mar 4, 9:48 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLMorgan2 hr
Mar 4, 10:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLWayne119 min
Mar 4, 12:19 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLWayne3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993

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.