Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 1996, 10:46 AM EDT for Henry County, Oldham County, Trimble County, Kentucky; Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 85 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, 10:46 AM EDT (14:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 12:11 PM EDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, IN, Henry County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Trimble County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:47 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 081450 FFWSDF INC077-KYC103-185-223-081645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1046 AM EDT WED MAY 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...HENRY COUNTY...OLDHAM COUNTY...TRIMBLE COUNTY AT 1045 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR LEOTA INDIANA IN WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY TO NEAR CHARLESTOWN INDIANA AND TO HARRODS CREEK IN NORTHEAST JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AND WILL DROP ONE TO TWO INCHES OVER THE WARNED COUNTIES THROUGH 1 PM EDT. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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. KIRKPATRICK
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
Local storm report, May 8, 10:40 AM EDT, 6 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1037 AM EDT WED MAY 8 1996
TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARK0S...
1430 EDT ORANGE COUNTY KY REPORTS OF ROADS UNDER
5/8/96 ORANGE WATER ACROSS ALL PARTS
OF THE COUNTY
MKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 64 min |
| May 8, 7:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 79 min |
| May 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 50 min |
| May 8, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 39 min |
| May 8, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Shelby | 50 min |
| May 8, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 48 min |
| May 8, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 27 min |
| May 8, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 42 min |
| May 8, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 42 min |
| May 8, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bath, Fleming | 42 min |
| May 8, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Montgomery | 42 min |
| May 8, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rowan | 28 min |
| May 8, 7:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 73 min |
| May 8, 7:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 58 min |
| May 8, 9:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 3 hr |
| May 8, 9:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Scott, Washington | 62 min |
| May 8, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 54 min |
| May 8, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 54 min |
| May 8, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Scott | 54 min |
| May 8, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Scott | 27 min |
| May 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison | 50 min |
| May 8, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 17 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Flash 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.