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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1996, 5:51 PM EDT for Clark County, Indiana. It was in force for 69 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1996, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 052150 FFWSDF INC019-052300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 551 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...CLARK COUNTY AT 545 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED FROM ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO ROLL ACROSS CLARK COUNTY INDIANA THIS EVENING... INCREASING THE FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL. IN ADDITION RECENT RAINS HAVE ALREADY LEFT THE GROUND SATURATED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STUREY
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, May 5, 3:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
335 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996
TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1429 EDT SPRINGFIELD KY QUARTER SIZE HAIL
5/5/96 WASHINGTON DAMAGE TO BARN
AND TWO TRAILOR HOMES
1430 EDT WAKEFIELD KY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
5/5/96 SPENCER
1435 EDT KY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
5/5/96 ANDERSON REPORTED BY DES
1508 EDT EAST SIDE OF FRANFORT KY 2 INCH HAIL
5/5/96 FRANKLIN REPORTED BY DES
1525 EDT 2 M SOUTH OF HUSTONVILLE KY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
5/5/96 LINCOLN REPORTED BY 911
COXLocal storm report, May 5, 3:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 350 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 1420 EDT KY 1 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 NELSON REPORTED BY DES 1455 EDT NEAR LEXINGTON KY QUARTER SIZE HAIL 5/5/96 FAYETTE REPORTED BY DES 1532 EDT MCKINNEY KY BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5/5/96 LINCOLN REPORTED BY DES 1540 EDT SE OF SHEPHERDSVILLE KY NICKEL SIZE HAIL 5/5/96 BULLITT * REPORTED BY DISPATCH 1542 EDT HALLS GAP KY 1.75 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 LINCOLN REPORTED BY HAM COX
Local storm report, May 5, 4:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 442 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 1505 EDT KY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 5/5/96 ANDERSON REPORTED BY DES 1630 EDT RICHMOND KY 3/4 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 MADISON REPORTED BY POLICE COX
Local storm report, May 5, 4:54 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 452 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 1605 EDT NEAR HARRISONVILLE KY 3/4 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 SHELBY REPORTED BY POLICE COX
Local storm report, May 5, 5:26 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 525 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 1655 EDT JUST EAST OF MOREHEAD KY 3/4 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 ROWAN REPORTED BY POLICE COX
Special weather statement, May 5, 5:51 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
KYZ001>022-052200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 550 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR WEST KENTUCKY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 299 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PART OF WEST KENTUCKY WEST OF AND INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF TODD..MUHLENBERG..MCLEAN AND DAVIESS. ANY ADDITIONAL STORMS THAT MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING ARE NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. KIRKPATRICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Washington | 2 hr |
| May 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison | 2 hr |
| May 5, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Perry | 56 min |
| May 5, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 51 min |
| May 5, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 51 min |
| May 5, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 45 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.