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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 1996Dubois County, Orange County, Indiana

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 506 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 6:47 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry73 min
May 8, 6:47 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry58 min
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

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.