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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Louisville, KY

July 22, 1992Clark County, Indiana; Oldham County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1992, 8:37 PM EDT for Clark County, Indiana; Oldham County, Kentucky. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 1992, 8:37 PM EDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1992, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clark County, IN, Oldham County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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-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: 245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 230039
FFWSDF
INC019-KYC185-230145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
837 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH INDIANA
 
   ...EASTERN CLARK COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...OLDHAM COUNTY
 
AT 830 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
IN A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE NEAR CHARLESTOWN IN
EASTERN CLARK COUNTY INDIANA TO ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LOUISVILLE JUST NORTH OF LAGRANGE IN OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY.
TORRENTIAL FLASH-FLOOD PRODUCING RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS WILL
ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT 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 UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
FUNK

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, Jul 22, 7:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

KYZ004-INZ013-015-230010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
705 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992

...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS DROPPING HEAVY RAIN OVER PARTS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL INDIANA THIS EVENING...

AT 7 PM EDT...NWS RADAR DETECTED NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS 30
MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE JUST EAST OF SALEM INDIANA IN EASTERN
WASHINGTON COUNTY.  IN ADDITION TO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...THESE
STORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVED
SLOWLY EAST.

THE TOWNS OF SCOTTSBURG AND HENRYVILLE IN SCOTT AND NORTHERN CLARK
COUNTY INDIANA WILL RECIEVE THE BRUNT OF THESE STORMS BY 8 PM EDT.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEAZTHER SERVICE FOR
LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
KIRKPATRICK

Local storm report, Jul 22, 7:39 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
735 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992

725 PM EDT          50 MPH WINDS AND ONE INCH OF RAIN IN 20 MINUTES
                    NEAR UNDERWOOD INDIANA ON SCOTT/jCLARK COUNTY INDIANA
                    LINE...25 MILES NORTH OF SDF. REPORTED BY TRAINED
                    SPOTTER.

FUNK

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 8:07 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

KYZ007-230100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
810 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE IN FLEMING COUNTY...

AT 8 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SLOW
MOVING THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LEXINGTON NEAR FLEMINGSBURG.

NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF FLEMING COUNTY
SINCE 7 PM EDT.

THE RAIN WILL GRADUALLY END OVER MOST OF FLEMING COUNTY BY 9 PM...
OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER. UNTIL THEN...OCCASIONAL HEAVY DOWNPOURS
ARE POSSIBLE IN AND AROUND FLEMINGSBURG...WHICH WILL LIKELY RESULT
IN PONDING OF WATER IN LOW-LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA...MONI|TOR WATER LEVELS OF NEARBY STREAMS OR
CREEKS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF CONTIONS BECOME
THREATENING.

KERR

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 8:11 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

KYZ007-230100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED SPELLING IN NEXT TO LAST LINE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
810 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE IN FLEMING COUNTY...

AT 8 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SLOW
MOVING THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LEXINGTON NEAR FLEMINGSBURG.

NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF FLEMING COUNTY
SINCE 7 PM EDT.

THE RAIN WILL GRADUALLY END OVER MOST OF FLEMING COUNTY BY 9 PM...
OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER. UNTIL THEN...OCCASIONAL HEAVY DOWNPOURS
ARE POSSIBLE IN AND AROUND FLEMINGSBURG...WHICH WILL LIKELY RESULT
IN PONDING OF WATER IN LOW-LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA...MONITOR WATER LEVELS OF NEARBY STREAMS OR
CREEKS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF CONDITIONS BECOME
THREATENING.

KERR

Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:27 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
820 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992

755 PM EDT          APPROXIMATELY 2 FT OF WATER OVER HWY 31N NEAR
                    HOSPITAL IN SCOTTSBURG INDIANA (SCOTT CO) 20 N SDF
                    CLOSING HIGHWAY.  PART OF HWY 31N BETWEEN HENRYVILLE
                    AND UNDERWOOD IN NORTHERN CLARK CO INDIANA WAS ALSO
                    CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.  REPORT FROM SCOTT CO
                    SHERIFF.

805 PM EDT          FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY TRAINED SPOTTER JUST NORTH
                    OF CHARLESTOWN INDIANA (CLARK CO) 15 N SDF.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 10:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clark, Scott	2 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.