Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 1995, 8:59 PM CDT for Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1995, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Daviess County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 631 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEVV 080200 FFWEVV KYC059-080400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 859 PM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY ...DAVIESS COUNTY AT 857 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS DAVIESS COUNTY KENTUCKY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN SOME LOCATIONS...WITH MORE EXPECTED TO COME. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. MM &
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, Aug 7, 5:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
INZ065-072325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 505 PM EST MON AUG 7 1995 THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR DECATUR COUNTY EXPIRED AT 500 PM EST. AT 455 PM EST RADAR INDICATED ONLY SCATTERED LIGHT THUNDERSHOWERS OVER EASTERN DECATUR COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL EXIT THE COUNTY BY 530 PM EST. ANOTHER BAND OF THUNDERSHOWERS WAS OVER JACKSON COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST BUT THESE THUNDERSHOWERS HAVE BEEN WEAKENING OVER THE PAST HOUR AND SHOULD NOT PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL IN DECATUR COUNTY. AT 450 PM EST THE DECATUR COUNTY SHERIFF INDICATED THAT MANY ROADS REMAINED FLOODED BUT THAT WATER HAD BEGUN TO SUBSIDE ON SOME ROADWAYS. DRIVERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOOD ROADWAYS. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS SAFELY. FLOWING WATER CAN EASILY SWEEP A VEHICLE AWAY. ALSO PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE RISING WATER. RPG
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
INZ065-072325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 505 PM EST MON AUG 7 1995 THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR DECATUR COUNTY EXPIRED AT 500 PM EST. AT 455 PM EST RADAR INDICATED ONLY SCATTERED LIGHT THUNDERSHOWERS OVER EASTERN DECATUR COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL EXIT THE COUNTY BY 530 PM EST. ANOTHER BAND OF THUNDERSHOWERS WAS OVER JACKSON COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST BUT THESE THUNDERSHOWERS HAVE BEEN WEAKENING OVER THE PAST HOUR AND SHOULD NOT PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL IN DECATUR COUNTY. AT 450 PM EST THE DECATUR COUNTY SHERIFF INDICATED THAT MANY ROADS REMAINED FLOODED BUT THAT WATER HAD BEGUN TO SUBSIDE ON SOME ROADWAYS. DRIVERS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOOD ROADWAYS. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS SAFELY. FLOWING WATER CAN EASILY SWEEP A VEHICLE AWAY. ALSO PEOPLE IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE RISING WATER. RPG
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.