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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY

February 21, 1993Bourbon County, Fayette County, Harrison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 21, 1993, 4:14 PM EST for Bourbon County, Fayette County, Harrison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 1993, 4:14 PM EST (21:14 UTC)
Expired
Feb 21, 1993, 5:15 PM EST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bourbon County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Harrison County, KY

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLEX 212115
FFWLEX
KYC017-067-097-113-212215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
414 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...BOURBON COUNTY...FAYETTE COUNTY...HARRISON COUNTY
   ...JESSAMINE COUNTY
 
AT 411PM EST RADAR AND SPSOTTER REPORTS INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM HARRISON COUNTY 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON TO PARIS 25 MILES
EAST OF LEXINGTON TO NICHOLASVILLE 15 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. THE
STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST INTO NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY CLARK AND MADISON
COUNTIES BY 445PM EST. CONSIDERABLE WIND DAMAGE AND HAIL HAVE BEEN
REPORTED WITH THE SEVERE STORMS.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Feb 21, 10:19 AM EST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ013-015-211500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1015 AM EST SUN FEB 21 1993

...FOG AND RAIN CREATING POOR VISIBILITY THIS MORNING...

AT 1015 AM EST...RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COMBINED WITH FOG WERE
REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A QUARTER MILE OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL
KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA.

THE RAIN WILL END IN THE LOUISVILLE AREA BY NOON BUT CONTINUE IN THE
SOMERSET AND LONDON AREAS INTO EARLY AFTERNOON.

THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY RAIN AND POOR VISIBILITY THROUGH MIDDAY WILL
MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT.  BE AWARE OF SUDDEN REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY
AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IF YOU ARE LATE THIS MORNING.

D. KIRKPATRICK
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 10:26 AM EST, 5 hours 48 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ013-015-211500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1020 AM EST SUN FEB 21 1993

...FOG AND RAIN CREATING POOR VISIBILITY THIS MORNING...

AT 1015 AM EST...RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COMBINED WITH FOG WERE
REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A QUARTER MILE OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL
KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA.

THE RAIN WILL END IN THE LOUISVILLE AREA BY NOON BUT CONTINUE IN THE
SOMERSET AND LONDON AREAS INTO EARLY AFTERNOON.

THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY RAIN AND POOR VISIBILITY THROUGH MIDDAY WILL
MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT.  BE AWARE OF SUDDEN REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY
AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IF YOU ARE TRAVELING LATE THIS MORNING.

D. KIRKPATRICK
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 12:55 PM EST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
KYZ009-212000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1250 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993

...TORNADO WATCH FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON...

THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST INTO PARTS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY BY 200 PM EST.

SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS.  A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES.

BE AWARE FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON.

D. KIRKPATRICK
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 2:14 PM EST, 2 hours before
KYZ004-INZ013-015-212030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
210 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993

...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE LOUISVILLE METRO AREA...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND
SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA TIL 7 PM EST.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY JUST WEST AND NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE.
AT 2 PM EST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM
HENRYVILLE IN NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY INDIANA SOUTHWEST TO JUST EAST OF
HARDINSBURG IN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY KENTUCKY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE FROM
SALEM IN WASHINGTON COUNTY INDIANA TO ENGLISH IN CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE
STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT NEAR 50 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE
THUNDERSTORMS. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS LOUISVILLE BETWEEN 230 AND
300 PM EST.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES. IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES...MOVE INSIDE TO SECURE SHELTER AT ONCE. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

FUNK
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 2:53 PM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
KYZ007-212100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
255 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
UNTIL 7 PM EST...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
THIS AFTERNOON...

AT 250 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED
SHOWERS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...MAINLY TO THE EAST OF LEXINGTON.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS
OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN KENTUCKY...FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE
...SOUTHWEST THROUGH LOUISVILLE TO WEST OF BOWLING GREEN.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE RACING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AROUND 45
MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE NEAR OR APPROACHING FRANKFORT...
LAWRENCEBURG AND HARRODSBURG BY 4 PM.

DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH
THESE STORMS...IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS
IN EFFECT AS CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT.

HEAVY RAINS...ON TOP OF THE SOAKING RAINS THIS MORNING...WILL
LIKELY RESULT IN SOME FLOODING.

IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON...SEEK SAFE
INDOOR SHELTER.

IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR A LOW-LYING OR FLOOD-PRONE AREA...CONTINUE TO
MONITOR WATER LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON. IF CONDITIONS BECOMING THREATENING
...SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

KERR
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 3:23 PM EST, 51 minutes before
KYZ007-212200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
325 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
UNTIL 7 PM EST...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
THIS AFTERNOON...

AT 320 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL 20 MILES NORTHWEST
OF LEXINGTON...JUST SOUTH OF FRANKFORT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE
DEVELOPING RAPIDLY TO THE SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHWESTERN ANDERSON COUNTY.

A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS JUST TO THE WEST OF
THESE THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDING FROM AROUND CINCINNATI SOUTHWEST TO
NEAR BARDSTOWN...CONTINUING SOUTHWEST.

MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE EAST AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL APPROACH GEORGETOWN...VERSAILLES AND
LAWRENCEBURG BY 4 PM. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN AND
AROUND FRANKFORT.

DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH
THESE STORMS...IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAINS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS
IN EFFECT AS CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT.

HEAVY RAINS...ON TOP OF THE SOAKING RAINS THIS MORNING...WILL
LIKELY RESULT IN SOME FLOODING.

IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON...SEEK SAFE
INDOOR SHELTER.

IF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR A LOW-LYING OR FLOOD-PRONE AREA...CONTINUE TO
MONITOR WATER LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON. IF CONDITIONS BECOMING THREATENING
...SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

KERR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 2:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOldham, Trimble27 min
Feb 21, 2:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson27 min
Feb 21, 2:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge, Meade34 min
Feb 21, 2:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Oldham38 min
Feb 21, 2:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNelson33 min
Feb 21, 3:10 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKHardin, Larue35 min
Feb 21, 3:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLarue35 min
Feb 21, 3:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKAnderson, Mercer60 min
Feb 21, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson, Mercer60 min
Feb 21, 4:14 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKJessamine61 min
Feb 21, 4:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison61 min
Feb 21, 4:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon, Fayette, Jessamine61 min
Feb 21, 4:19 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKBath, Fleming, Nicholas56 min
Feb 21, 4:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBath, Fleming, Nicholas56 min
Feb 21, 4:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMenifee, Rowan37 min

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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.