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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 1996, 8:05 AM EST for Dubois County, Orange County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr. 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, 8:05 AM EST (13:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dubois County, IN, Orange County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:07 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 081308 FFWSDF INC037-117-081600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 905 AM EDT (805 AM EST) WED MAY 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON EDT (1100 AM EST) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...DUBOIS COUNTY...ORANGE COUNTY AT 9 AM EST (8 AM EST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOW A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN DUBOIS COUNTY AND INTO CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF JASPER AND JUST SOUTH OF FRENCH LICK. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER JASPER AND FRENCH LICK INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HEAVY RAIN AND ARE MOVING ACROSS THE SAME AREA. THERE WILL BE AT LEAST SEVERAL HOURS OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SAME AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY REACH 2 TO 3 INCHES IN AN HOUR AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER NORTHERN DUBOIS COUNTY AND CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY. THIS IS A SITUATION WHERE FLOODING IS IMMINENT DUE TO THE HEAVY PRECIPITATION FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. WHW/MC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 73 min |
| May 8, 6:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 58 min |
| May 8, 8:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Scott, Washington | 62 min |
| May 8, 9:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 85 min |
| May 8, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Scott | 54 min |
| May 8, 4:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Scott | 27 min |
| May 8, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 17 min |
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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.