Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 28, 1994, 1:55 AM EST for Gallatin County, Grant County, Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 1994, 1:55 AM EST (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1994, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Owen County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 442 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 KCVG 280656 FFWCVG KYC077-081-187-280900- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 155 AM EST FRI JAN 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...GALLATIN COUNTY...GRANT COUNTY...OWEN COUNTY SMALL STREAM FLOODING WAS BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS NORTHERN KENTUCKY THIS MORNING. GALLATIN AND OWEN COUNTY DISPATCHES REPORTED EAGLE CREEK WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS...WHICH RUNS ALONG THE OWEN-GALLATIN COUNTY LINE. SEVERAL SMALLER CREEKS WERE ALSO RISING OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN OWEN COUNTY. CREEKS IN GRANT COUNTY WERE ALSO NEAR BANKFULL AND WILL LIKELY RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS AS WELL. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE IN THE WARNING AREA FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING...FURTHER AGGRIVATING THE FLOOD SITUATION. NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO A FLOODED ROADWAY. YOU CAN EASILY BECOME STRANDED OR TRAPPED. THE DEPTH OF WATER IS NOT ALWAYS OBVIOUS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT THE ROAD CONDITION OR THE WATER LEVEL AHEAD OF YOU...TURN AROUND AND TAKE ANOTHER ROUTE. PYTLAK
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, Jan 27, 9:17 PM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
INZ066-073-074-075-080-OHZ070-071-072-077-078-079-080-KYZ089-090- 091-092-093-094-095-096-097-099-280015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 917 PM EST THU JAN 27 1994 A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE GREATER CINCINNATI TRISTATE AREA OF SOUTHWEST OHIO NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST TONIGHT. AT 915 PM EST CHECKING WITH COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WITHIN THE GREATER CINCINNATI TRI STATE INDICATED NO PROBLEMS ON STREAMS AND CREEKS...HOWEVER DUE TO OVER A HALF INCH (0.60) OF RAINFALL DURING TODAY RUNOFF WILL HELP LEVELS TO RISE TONIGHT. IN CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO THIS EVENING...COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED PONDING OF WATER HAD OCCURRED ON THE LAUREL-NICKLESVILLE ROAD...LOCATED IN MONROE TOWNSHIP ON OF SR 222 AND 232. THE ROAD WAS NOT CLOSED, BUT SIGNS WERE UP TO INDICATE HIGH WATER. AS THE STORM SYSTEM OVER THE MISSOURI VALLEY CONTINUES TO LIFT AND MOVE NORTHEAST TONIGHT...RAINFALL WILL INCREASE AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES ALONG WITH A POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVERNIGHT ONTO ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL INCREASE THE CHANCES FOR FLOODING ON SMALL STREAMS...CREEKS AND ROADWAYS. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AND/OR A FLOOD PRONE AREA...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE OR WALK ACROSS AREAS OF HIGH WATER. BY THE WEEKEND RAINFALL COMBINED WITH SNOW MELT UP RIVER WILL RESULT INTO SOME SERIOUS RISES ON THE OHIO RIVER AND OTHER TRIBUTARTIES. SAM
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 9:22 PM EST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
INZ066-073-074-075-080-OHZ070-071-072-077-078-079-080-KYZ089-090- 091-092-093-094-095-096-097-099-280015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 917 PM EST THU JAN 27 1994 A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE GREATER CINCINNATI TRISTATE AREA OF SOUTHWEST OHIO NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST TONIGHT. AT 915 PM EST CHECKING WITH COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WITHIN THE GREATER CINCINNATI TRI STATE INDICATED NO PROBLEMS ON STREAMS AND CREEKS...HOWEVER DUE TO OVER A HALF INCH (0.60) OF RAINFALL DURING TODAY RUNOFF WILL HELP LEVELS TO RISE TONIGHT. IN CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO THIS EVENING...COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED PONDING OF WATER HAD OCCURRED ON THE LAUREL-NICKLESVILLE ROAD...LOCATED IN MONROE TOWNSHIP ON OF SR 222 AND 232. THE ROAD WAS NOT CLOSED, BUT SIGNS WERE UP TO INDICATE HIGH WATER. AS THE STORM SYSTEM OVER THE MISSOURI VALLEY CONTINUES TO LIFT AND MOVE NORTHEAST TONIGHT...RAINFALL WILL INCREASE AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES ALONG WITH A POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVERNIGHT ONTO ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL INCREASE THE CHANCES FOR FLOODING ON SMALL STREAMS...CREEKS AND ROADWAYS. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AND/OR A FLOOD PRONE AREA...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE OR WALK ACROSS AREAS OF HIGH WATER. BY THE WEEKEND RAINFALL COMBINED WITH SNOW MELT UP RIVER WILL RESULT INTO SOME SERIOUS RISES ON THE OHIO RIVER AND OTHER TRIBUTARTIES. SAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 4:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 4 hr |
| Jan 28, 4:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason | 4 hr |
| Jan 28, 4:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Kenton | 4 hr |
| Jan 28, 4:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Campbell, Pendleton | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.