Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1996, 10:46 PM EST for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 4 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
- Apr 28, 1996, 10:46 PM EST (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 2:45 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Orange County, IN, Washington County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 637 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1126 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 290350 FFWSDF INC025-037-117-143-175-290745- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1146 PM EDT (1046 PM EST) SUN APR 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM EDT (245 AM EST) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...DUBOIS COUNTY...ORANGE COUNTY ...SCOTT COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA OVERNIGHT. LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE UP TO 2 ADDITIONAL INCHES. THIS RAIN WILL FALL ON GROUND THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SATURATED WITH BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES OF RAIN ON SUNDAY. SEVERAL ROADS IN SOUTHERN INDIANA HAVE BEEN CLOSED BY RISING WATER. REMEMBER NEVER DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO WATER OVER ROADS AND UNDERPASSES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 9:54 PM EST, 52 minutes before
KYZ001>016-018-290600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1045 PM EDT SUN APR 28 1996 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF WEST KENTUCKY THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE IMMEDIATE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS TO HAVE ENDED. HOWEVER...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT IN WEST KENTUCKY...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE :EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WEST KENTUCKY TOWARD MORNING...WITH A FEW OF THOSE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING STRONG OR EVEN SEVERE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF FAR WEST KENTUCKY OVERNIGHT. FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 10:46 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Scott | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 75 min |
| Apr 29, 6:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Washington | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 2:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 2 hr |
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.