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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY

July 14, 1986Clark County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1986, 9:28 PM EDT for Clark County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 1986, 9:28 PM EDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 1986, 1:30 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Clark County, IN

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAAOO KSDF 150128 RRA
FFWSDF
INC019-150530-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
928 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1986
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
 
IN SOUTH INDIANA
          ..CLARK

AT 925 PM EDT..825 PM CDT INDIANA STATE POLICE REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING IN CLARK COUNTY INDIANA. AREAS IN AND AROUND HENRYVILLE ARE
EXPERIENCING FLOODING AS ARE AREAS ADJACENT TO THE CLARK STATE
FOREST AND ALONG INTERSTATE 65 NEAR MEMPHIS INDIANA.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT IS
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.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...
ON FOOT.

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

Local storm report, Jul 14, 5:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
530 PM EDT JUL 14 1986

1515 PM EDT...PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY BLUEGRASS AIRPORT FIRE/SAFETY
              AT END OF RUNWAY.
1650 PM EDT...CALL FROM DEvS PARIS, KENTUCKY REPORTS A FEW MEDIUM TREES
              BLOWN DOWN, POWER LINE DOWN, AND A BARN AND SEVERAL TREES
              SET ON FIRE BY LIGHTNING.

MHOON

Local storm report, Jul 14, 7:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
530 PM EDT JUL 14 1986

1515 PM EDT...PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY BLUEGRASS AIRPORT FIRE/SAFETY
              AT END OF RUNWAY.
1545 PM EDT...GEORGETOWN IN SCOTT KENTUCKY 10 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF
              LEXINGTON.  REPORTS FROM GEORGETOWN KY POLICE REPORT
              NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN...POWER LINES KNOCKED DOWN BY TREES.
              LARGE TREE BLOWN ON HOUSE CAUSING SEVERE DAMAGE IN NORTH
              PART OF GEORGETOWN.  NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES IN SCOTT CO.
              TREES BLOCKING US 460 AT OXFORD IN SCOTT CO...14 MILES
              NORTH NORTH EAST OF LEXINGTON...US 62 EAST OF GEORGETOWN
              AND KENTUCKY STATE HIGHWAY 227 NEAR STAMPING GROUND..
              14 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON.
1630 PM EDT...PARIS POLICE AND DES REPORT SOME LARGE TREES BLOWN
              INTO POWER LINES AT PARIS IN BOURBON COUNTY...19 MILES
              NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON.  ONE BARN BURNED TO GROUND BY
              LIGHTNING...SEVERAL TREES BURNED DOWN BY LIGHTNING.
1710 PM EDT...MONTGOMERY COUNTY DES AT MOUNT STERLING...30 MILES EAST OF
               LEXINGTON...REPORTS LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN AT SEVERAL
               LOCATIONS ACROSS NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF MONTGOMERY
               COUNTY.  ONE HOUSE TRAILER BURNED TO GROUND BY
               LIGHTNING STRIKE AT HOWARDS MILLS...36 MILES EAST OF
               LEXINGTON. FUNNEL REPORTED AT KINGSTON IN MONTGOMERY
               COUNTY.  COMMUNITY OF JUDY HARDEST HIT BY DOWNED TREES
               IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.  RADIO STATIONS AND CABLE-TV
               WITH TRANSMITTERS KNOCKED..EITHR BY LIGHTNING OR WIND.

NOTE...ALL REPORTS WE;RE COLLECTED AFTER 1800 EDT TO 1900 EDT

MHOON

Local storm report, Jul 14, 7:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
700 PM EDT JUL 14 1986

1515 PM EDT...PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY BLUEGRASS AIRPORT FIRE/SAFETY
              AT END OF RUNWAY.
1545 PM EDT...GEORGETOWN IN SCOTT KENTUCKY 10 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF
              LEXINGTON.  REPORTS FROM GEORGETOWN KY POLICE REPORT
              NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN...POWER LINES KNOCKED DOWN BY TREES.
              LARGE TREE BLOWN ON HOUSE CAUSING SEVERE DAMAGE IN NORTH
              PART OF GEORGETOWN.  NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES IN SCOTT CO.
              TREES BLOCKING US 460 AT OXFORD IN SCOTT CO...14 MILES
              NORTH NORTH EAST OF LEXINGTON...US 62 EAST OF GEORGETOWN
              AND KENTUCKY STATE HIGHWAY 227 NEAR STAMPING GROUND..
              14 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON.
1630 PM EDT...PARIS POLICE AND DES REPORT SOME LARGE TREES BLOWN
              INTO POWER LINES AT PARIS IN BOURBON COUNTY...19 MILES
              NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON.  ONE BARN BURNED TO GROUND BY
              LIGHTNING...SEVERAL TREES BURNED DOWN BY LIGHTNING.
1710 PM EDT...MONTGOMERY COUNTY DES AT MOUNT STERLING...30 MILES EAST OF
               LEXINGTON...REPORTS LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN AT SEVERAL
               LOCATIONS ACROSS NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF MONTGOMERY
               COUNTY.  ONE HOUSE TRAILER BURNED TO GROUND BY
               LIGHTNING STRIKE AT HOWARDS MILLS...36 MILES EAST OF
               LEXINGTON. FUNNEL REPORTED AT KINGSTON IN MONTGOMERY
               COUNTY.  COMMUNITY OF JUDY HARDEST HIT BY DOWNED TREES
               IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.  RADIO STATIONS AND CABLE-TV
               WITH TRANSMITTERS KNOCKED..EITHR BY LIGHTNING OR WIND.

NOTE...ALL REPORTS WE>RE COLLECTED AFTER 1800 EDT TO 1900 EDT

MHOON

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 8:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
800 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1986

VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA

STRONG STORMS WERE IN PROGRESS ACROSS PARTS OF KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA THIS EVENING. AT 8 PM EDT..7 PM CDT A LINE OF STRONG AND
DANGEROUS STORMS STRETCHED FROM SALEM IN WASHINGTON COUNTY INDIANA
SOUTHEAST TO AROUND CRESTWOOD IN SOUTHERN OLDHAM COUNTY. THE STORMS
WERE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

ANOTHER VERY STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED ON THE ROCKCASTLE/PULASKI
COUNTY BORDER 15 MILES WEST OF LONDON MOVING INTO LAUREL COUNTY.

ALL OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG
WINDS..FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND HAIL.

RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON THE SKY AND PREPARE TO
TO SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. ALSO..CONTINUE TO
MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS FOR THE LATEST
WEATHER_ INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE EVENING.

AUSTIN

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 8:38 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
835 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1986

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

AT 830 PM EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY
OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY. ONE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF FRANKFORT OR 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON.

AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO LOCATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
..EAST OF LOUISVILLE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE
ACROSS FRANKFORT COUNTY AND INTO ANDERSON COUNTY BETWEEN 830 PM AND
930 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE PASSAGE
OF THESE THUwNDERSTORMS. IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THE PATH OF THESE
STORMS SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
WHITE

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 9:21 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
920 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1986

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

AT 915 PM EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER ANDERSON..
FRANKLIN..SCOTT AND WESTERN WOODFORD COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY NEAR
LAWRENCEBURG..14 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE
ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS MONDAY EVENING.

PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE PASSAGE
OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THE PATH OF THESE
STORMS SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATEL Y. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
WHITE

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.