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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY

June 4, 1993Estill County, Powell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1993, 2:45 PM EDT for Estill County, Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1993, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1993, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Estill County, KY, Powell County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLEX 041845
FFWLEX
KYC065-197-041945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
245 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...ESTILL COUNTY...POWELL COUNTY
 
AT 245PM EDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ESTILL AND POWELL
COUNTIES 35 TO 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
RAPIDLY EAST.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR :YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Jun 4, 1:46 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
145 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993

TIME               REPORT/LOCATION

125 PM EDT         NWS VOLUNTEER OBSERVER REPORTED 100 MPH WINDS AND
                   LOTS OF DAMAGE NEAR ELIZABETHTOWN IN HARDIN COUNTY.

141 PM EDT         AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL
                   NEAR BARDSTOWN IN NELSON COUNTY.

LGL

Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:53 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
153 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993

TIME               REPORT/LOCATION

140 PM EDT         WIND DAMAGE REPORTED IN AND AROUND CAMPBELLSVILLE
                   IN TAYLOR COUNTY. REPORTED BY TAYLOR COUNTY DISPATCH.

LGL

  AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL
                   NEAR BARDSTOWN IN NELSON COUNTY.

LGL

Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:53 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
153 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993

TIME               REPORT/LOCATION

140 PM EDT         WIND DAMAGE REPORTED IN AND AROUND CAMPBELLSVILLE
                   IN TAYLOR COUNTY. REPORTED BY TAYLOR COUNTY DISPATCH.

LGL

  AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL
                   NEAR BARDSTOWN IN NELSON COUNTY.

LGL

Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:27 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
227 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993

TIME               REPORT/LOCATION

200 PM EDT         CASEY COUNTY...EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN. OFF DUTY
                   NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED WIND DAMAGE DUE TO 50 TO
                   60 MPH WINDS AND HAIL ONE QUARTER INCH IN
                   DIAMETER.

200 PM EDT         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN NEAR BUFFALO IN LARUE COUNTY.
                   REPORTED BY WIFE OF NWS EMPLOYEE.

LGL

Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:28 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
227 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993

TIME               REPORT/LOCATION

200 PM EDT         CASEY COUNTY...EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN. OFF DUTY
                   NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED WIND DAMAGE DUE TO 50 TO
                   60 MPH WINDS AND HAIL ONE QUARTER INCH IN
                   DIAMETER.

200 PM EDT         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN NEAR BUFFALO IN LARUE COUNTY.
                   REPORTED BY WIFE OF NWS EMPLOYEE.

LGL

Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
245 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993

TIME               REPORT/LOCATION

145 - 230 PM EDT    NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
                    IN ADAIR...CASSEY...RUSSELL...TAYLOR...ROCKCASTLE
                    AND PULASKI COUNTIES KENTUCKY. REPORTS PROVIDED
                    BY LOCAL SHERIFF/S DEPARTMENTS.

235 PM EDT          WINDS ESTIMATES OF 60 MPH IN CLINTON COUNTY.
                    REPORTED BY ALBANY FIRE DEPARTMENT.

MTS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 2:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	63 min
Jun 4, 3:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	40 min
Jun 4, 6:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	35 min
Jun 4, 6:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Shelby	37 min
Jun 4, 7:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	50 min
Jun 4, 8:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	51 min
Jun 4, 8:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin	52 min
Jun 4, 9:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	49 min
Jun 4, 9:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	33 min
Jun 4, 9:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	29 min
Jun 4, 9:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	26 min
Jun 4, 9:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	22 min
Jun 4, 9:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Woodford	47 min
Jun 4, 10:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Montgomery	39 min
Jun 4, 10:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Madison	40 min
Jun 4, 11:07 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Menifee	68 min
Jun 4, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	30 min
Jun 4, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	53 min
Jun 4, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	35 min
Jun 4, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	41 min
Jun 4, 1:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	2 hr
Jun 4, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	37 min
Jun 4, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell	52 min
Jun 4, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard	40 min
Jun 4, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	40 min
Jun 4, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Pulaski, Wayne	49 min
Jun 4, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln, Rockcastle	49 min
Jun 4, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin	48 min
Jun 4, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	40 min
Jun 4, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Whitley	29 min

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.