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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY

May 5, 1996Anderson County, Shelby County, Woodford County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1996, 6:38 PM EDT for Anderson County, Shelby County, Woodford County, Kentucky. It was in force for 52 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, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Anderson County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 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

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson, Washington	31 min
May 5, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	37 min
May 5, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	39 min
May 5, 2:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Mercer, Washington	44 min
May 5, 2:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson, Woodford	35 min
May 5, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	29 min
May 5, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin	26 min
May 5, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette	35 min
May 5, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Scott	39 min
May 5, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	32 min
May 5, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	32 min
May 5, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	38 min
May 5, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rockcastle	34 min
May 5, 4:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Rockcastle	39 min
May 5, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	35 min
May 5, 4:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Madison	20 min
May 5, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Estill	50 min
May 5, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Hancock, Ohio	61 min
May 5, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	61 min
May 5, 4:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Shelby	69 min
May 5, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rowan	33 min
May 5, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Shelby	41 min
May 5, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson, Warren	64 min
May 5, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Edmonson, Grayson	64 min
May 5, 5:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Scott, Woodford	115 min
May 5, 5:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark	115 min
May 5, 5:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison	115 min
May 5, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	63 min
May 5, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	63 min
May 5, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	14 min
May 5, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	53 min
May 5, 6:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Shelby	90 min
May 5, 6:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	27 min
May 5, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	23 min
May 5, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	23 min
May 5, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Marion, Taylor	45 min
May 5, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	45 min
May 5, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	25 min
May 5, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	25 min
May 5, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	35 min
May 5, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer, Washington	48 min
May 5, 6:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham	68 min
May 5, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham	68 min
May 5, 6:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Fayette	52 min
May 5, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Shelby, Woodford	52 min
May 5, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	52 min
May 5, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	43 min
May 5, 6:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clark, Montgomery	61 min
May 5, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Montgomery	61 min
May 5, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison	40 min
May 5, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Estill, Menifee, Powell	44 min
May 5, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bath, Nicholas	53 min
May 5, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fleming, Rowan	61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.