Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1996, 8:35 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Kentucky. It was in force for 85 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, 8:35 PM EDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 4:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 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, 3 hours 41 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, 3 hours 9 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, 2 hours 44 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
Local storm report, May 5, 5:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
555 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996
TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1735 EDT BAGDAD AND SHELBYVILLE KY FLOODING PART OF CITY
5/5/96 SHELBY WITHOUT POWER.
REPORTED BY DES
COXLocal storm report, May 5, 6:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
634 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996
TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1807 EDT 3 MILES EAST OF BRANDENBURG KY TORNADO SPOTTED
MEADE REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
1814 EDT LEBANON JCT KY TREES DOWN
BULLITT REPORTED BY SPOTTER
1820 EDT LOUISVILLE KY 60 MPH WINDS
JEFFERSON REPORTED BY SPOTTER
COXNearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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.