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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Louisville, KY

February 15, 19905 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1990, 5:13 PM CST for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 15, 1990, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Feb 15, 1990, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Meade County, KY

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 152313
FFWSDF
KYC027-029-163-185-093-103-111-211-215-223-160315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
613 PM EST THU FEB 15 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF KENTUCKY
      BRECKINRIDGE...BULLITT...MEADE...OLDHAM...HARDIN...
      HENRY...JEFFERSON...SHELBY...SPENCER...TRIMBLE

AT 610 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW
HEAVY RAIN WIDESPREAD OVER NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.  TWO AND A HALF
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN LOUISVILLE SINCE 1000 AM THIS MORNING
...WITH SOME REPORTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES OVER PARTS OF NORTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY.  NUMEROUS ROADS IN LOUISVILLE AND THE SURROUNDING
KENTUCKY COUNTIES ARE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING HIGHWAYS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOOD WATERS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

 KIRKPATRICK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 15, 1:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	4 hr
Feb 15, 1:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	4 hr
Feb 15, 1:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	4 hr
Feb 15, 2:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby, Trimble	4 hr
Feb 15, 2:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Spencer	4 hr
Feb 15, 5:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	4 hr
Feb 15, 5:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Spencer	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.