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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 1996Breckinridge County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 1996, 6:41 AM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 64 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 8, 1996, 6:41 AM CDT (11:41 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1996, 7:45 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Breckinridge County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 984 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
984 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 6:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge79 min
May 8, 9:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKHenry, Oldham, Trimble85 min
May 8, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTrimble50 min
May 8, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry, Oldham39 min
May 8, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin, Shelby50 min
May 8, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison, Scott48 min
May 8, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry27 min
May 8, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon, Nicholas42 min
May 8, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette42 min
May 8, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBath, Fleming42 min
May 8, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Montgomery42 min
May 8, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKRowan28 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.