Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1993, 11:00 PM EDT for Fayette County, Woodford County, Kentucky. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1993, 11:00 PM EDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1993, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 KLEX 050301 FFWLEX KYC049-067-239-050400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1100 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...CLARK COUNTY...FAYETTE COUNTY...WOODFORD COUNTY AT 1059PM EDT RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WOODFORD COUNTY 15 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON TO FAYETTE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT NEAR 50 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. &
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, 10:28 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
KYZ007-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1025PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS STRONG STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS THE AREA. STRONGEST STORMS ON RADAR AT 1025PM WERE OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON AND OVER ROWAN COUNTY 45 MILES EAST OF HUNTINGTON W. VA. THE HEAVIER RAINS WILL BRING SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAM TO NEAR BANKFUL. SOME GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL COULD OCCUR IN MOST ANY STORM THIS EVENING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATER APPROACHES AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:28 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
KYZ007-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1025PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS STRONG STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS THE AREA. STRONGEST STORMS ON RADAR AT 1025PM WERE OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON AND OVER ROWAN COUNTY 45 MILES EAST OF HUNTINGTON W. VA. THE HEAVIER RAINS WILL BRING SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAM TO NEAR BANKFUL. SOME GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL COULD OCCUR IN MOST ANY STORM THIS EVENING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATER APPROACHES AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:31 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
KYZ007-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1025PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS STRONG STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS THE AREA. STRONGEST STORMS ON RADAR AT 1025PM WERE OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON AND OVER ROWAN COUNTY 45 MILES WEST OF HUNTINGTON W. VA. THE HEAVIER RAINS WILL BRING SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAM TO NEAR BANKFUL. SOME GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL COULD OCCUR IN MOST ANY STORM THIS EVENING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATER APPROACHES AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:31 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
KYZ007-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1025PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS STRONG STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS THE AREA. STRONGEST STORMS ON RADAR AT 1025PM WERE OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON AND OVER ROWAN COUNTY 45 MILES WEST OF HUNTINGTON W. VA. THE HEAVIER RAINS WILL BRING SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAM TO NEAR BANKFUL. SOME GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL COULD OCCUR IN MOST ANY STORM THIS EVENING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATER APPROACHES AND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:52 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
KYZ007-050400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1050PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... AT 1050PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM ANDERSON COUNTY 25 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON TO FAYETTE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT NEAR 50 MPH. SOME PONDING OF WATER IN LOWER LYING AREAS WILL LIKELY RESULT FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL. OTHER STRONG STORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO PARTS OF SOUTHERN BOYLE AND GARRARD COUNTIES 25 TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST THROUGH SOUTH OF LEXINGTON BY MIDNIGHT. DO NO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:52 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
KYZ007-050400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 1050PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... AT 1050PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM ANDERSON COUNTY 25 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON TO FAYETTE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT NEAR 50 MPH. SOME PONDING OF WATER IN LOWER LYING AREAS WILL LIKELY RESULT FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL. OTHER STRONG STORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO PARTS OF SOUTHERN BOYLE AND GARRARD COUNTIES 25 TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST THROUGH SOUTH OF LEXINGTON BY MIDNIGHT. DO NO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 12:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 24 min |
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.