Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT for Carter County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carter County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 540 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 KCRW 241945 FFWCRW KYC043-242245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 345 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST KENTUCKY ...CARTER COUNTY RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IN ONE HOUR NEAR SOLDIER AND UPPER TYGART. THESE AMOUNTS SHOULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. xMOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WATCH OUT FOR MUD SLIDES.
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 24, 2:54 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
WVZ013-242000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 254 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LINCOLN COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LINCOLN COUNTY IS DROPPING SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS IT PASSES THROUGH THE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS FALLING NEAR RANGER WEST VIRGINIA. AARONS CREEK AND HAMILTON CREEK CAN EXPECT SOME QUICK RISES WITH LEVELS COMING UP TO AROUND BANKFULL BY 500 PM. AT THE PRESENT TIME THIS STORM IS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST INTO NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY. OTHER CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THIS SECTION OF THE COUNTY CAN ALSO EXPECT SOME QUICK RISES AFTER THE STORM PASSES. IF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DEVELOPS AND MOVES OVER THIS AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED. AS ALWAYS IF ANY WATER IS CROSSING OVER ROADWAYS MOTORISTS MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH THE WATER. END/REZEK WUUS01KCHI /a
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:01 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
WVZ013-242000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 254 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LINCOLN COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LINCOLN COUNTY IS DROPPING SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS IT PASSES THROUGH THE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS FALLING NEAR RANGER WEST VIRGINIA. AARONS CREEK AND HAMILTON CREEK CAN EXPECT SOME QUICK RISES WITH LEVELS COMING UP TO AROUND BANKFULL BY 500 PM. AT THE PRESENT TIME THIS STORM IS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST INTO NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY. OTHER CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THIS SECTION OF THE COUNTY CAN ALSO EXPECT SOME QUICK RISES AFTER THE STORM PASSES. IF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DEVELOPS AND 4MOVES OVER THIS AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED. AS ALWAYS IF ANY WATER IS CROSSING OVER ROADWAYS MOTORISTS MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH THE WATER. END/REZEK
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:35 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
KYZ102-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 335 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CARTER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CARTER COUNTY IS DROPPING SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS IT PASSES THROUGH THE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS FALLING AROUND THE UPPER TYGART AND SOLDIER AREAS OF KENTUCKY. SOME QUICK RISES ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH LEVELS COMING UP TO AROUND BANKFULL BY 500 PM TO 6 PM. AT THE PRESENT TIME THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST TOWARD OLIVE HILL AND CARTER CAVES. OTHER CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THIS SECTION OF THE COUNTY CAN ALSO EXPECT SOME QUICK RISES AFTER THE STORM PASSES. IF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DEVELOPS AND MOVES OVER THIS AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED. AS ALWAYS IF ANY WATER IS CROSSING OVER ROADWAYS MOTORISTS MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH THE WATER. END/RPY
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:42 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
KYZ102-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 335 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CARTER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CARTER COUNTY IS DROPPING SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS IT PASSES THROUGH THE COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS FALLING AROUND THE UPPER TYGART AND SOLDIER AREAS OF KENTUCKY. SOME QUICK RISES ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH LEVELS COMING UP TO AROUND BANKFULL BY 500 PM TO 6 PM. AT THE PRESENT TIME THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST TOWARD OLIVE HILL AND CARTER CAVES. OTHER CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THIS SECTION OF THE COUNTY CAN ALSO EXPECT SOME QUICK RISES AFTER THE STORM PASSES. IF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSvTORM ACTIVITY DEVELOPS AND MOVES OVER THIS AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED. AS ALWAYS IF ANY WATER IS CROSSING OVER ROADWAYS MOTORISTS MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH THE WATER. END/RPY
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.