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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 1996Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 1996, 6:47 AM EST for Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 73 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, 6:47 AM EST (11:47 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1996, 8:00 AM EST
In force
73 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:47 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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, 6:47 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry58 min
May 8, 8:05 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKDubois, Orange3 hr
May 8, 8:43 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKClark, Scott, Washington62 min
May 8, 9:46 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson85 min
May 8, 3:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois, Orange54 min
May 8, 3:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington54 min
May 8, 3:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Scott54 min
May 8, 4:18 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKScott27 min
May 8, 4:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Floyd50 min
May 8, 4:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison50 min
May 8, 4:28 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKJefferson17 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.