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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 9, 1995Barren County, Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1995, 9:27 AM CDT for Barren County, Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1995, 9:27 AM CDT (14:27 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1995, 12:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barren County, KY, Monroe County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 1995-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 122 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 292 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
122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
292 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
337 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 091431
FFWEVV
KYC009-171-091730-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
927 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...BARREN COUNTY...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 925 CDT RAIN EARLY THIS MORNING AND WITH THE RAIN STILL CONTINUING IN
SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY WAS CAUSING FLOODING OF AREA ROADS. GLASGOW
KENTUCKY REPORTED 2 INCHES OF RAIN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR ACROSS
ROADWAYS.
 
 
NIEMEIER

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, May 9, 4:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
INZ002>089-101100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
445 AM EST TUE MAY 9 1995

ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.

JEH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningINDWarren2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.