Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 23, 1993, 1:28 PM EST for Harlan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 1993, 1:28 PM EST (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 1993, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harlan County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 504 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 231830 COR
FFWJKL
KYC095-232100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
128 PM EST TUE MAR 23 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KENTUCKY
HARLAN
AT 120 PM EST...HARLAN STATE POLICE POST REPORT MANY STREAMS AT OR
NEAR BANKFULL ACROSS HARLAN COUNTY. RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL
CONTINUE OVER HARLAN COUNTY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AND FLASH
FLOODING WILL LIKELY OCCUR.
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.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS..RIVERSE OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAIN. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAIN.
IF YOU ARE IN A LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA...YOU SHOULD MONITOR
WATER LEVELS CLOSELY. IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED...MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF
SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN JACKSON
SMITH...CORRECTED FOR LENGTH OF WARNING...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 23, 10:23 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
KYZ008-221700- URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1020 AM EST MON MAR 22 1993 ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IN PARTS OF BELL COUNTY... AT 1015 AM...MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN DOWNTOWN MIDDLESBORO BY THE AREA 11 DES DIRECTOR. SEVERAL INCHES OF WATER WERE OVER PARTS OF CUMBERLAND AVENUE AND MANY DITHCES WERE OVERFLOWING DUE TO STORM SEWERS BACKING UP. PEOPLE IN BELL COUNTY AND ESPECIALLY THE MIDDLESBORO AREA SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD...ESPECIALLY THROUGH UNDERPASSES OR DIPS IN THE ROAD. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS IN HIGH WATER YOU SHOULD ABANDON THE VEHICLE AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN THE BELL COUNTY AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 11:28 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knox | 3 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.