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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY

February 15, 1990Bullitt County, Hardin County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1990, 2:20 PM EST for Bullitt County, Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 15, 1990, 2:20 PM EST (19:20 UTC)
Expired
Feb 15, 1990, 6:00 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bullitt County, KY, Hardin 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1990-02-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1990-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 282 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 2:03 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson, Oldham4 hr
Feb 15, 2:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge, Meade4 hr
Feb 15, 3:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKHenry, Shelby, Trimble4 hr
Feb 15, 3:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKSpencer4 hr
Feb 15, 6:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade4 hr
Feb 15, 6:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKHenry, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble4 hr
Feb 15, 6:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKSpencer4 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.