Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 1997, 1:43 PM EST for Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 1997, 1:43 PM EST (18:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lewis County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 411 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 011844 FFWILN KYC041-077-135-012100- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 143 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH KENTUCKY ...CARROLL COUNTY ...GALLATIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY ...LEWIS COUNTY RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL HAS LED TO MANY ROAD CLOSURES DUE TO HIGH WATER. ACROSS CARROLL...GALLATIN AND LEWIS COUNTIES THERE WERE SECONDARY ROADS CLOSED DUE TO WATER. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY AND TONIGHT AND THIS WILL WORSEN THE FLOODING PROBLEM. MORE ROADS ARE EXPECTED TO BE CLOSED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT DUE TO ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. SANDLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Pendleton | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Owen | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Robertson | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Robertson | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:43 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Robertson | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason, Pendleton | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Lewis | 4 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.