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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1996, 2:10 AM EDT for Floyd County, 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
- May 11, 1996, 2:10 AM EDT (06:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1996, 6:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 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 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 110614 FFWSDF INC043-111015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 210 AM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...FLOYD COUNTY AT 209 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER FLOYD COUNTY INDIANA AND INDIANA STATE POLICE AT SELLERSBURG AND STORM SPOTTER REPORTED FLOODING AT FLOYDS KNOBS AND AT GEORGETOWN AND GREENVILLE ROAD IN NORTHWEST FLOYD COUNTY. MORE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL BE MOVING OVER FLOYD COUNTY DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND THIS WILL PUSH MORE STREAMS AND CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS. 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. SCHOLZ/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 11, 1:44 AM EDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
140 AM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996
TIME(EDT) LOCATION... ST EVENT...
DATE COUNTY... REMARKS...
120 AM BEDFORD KY HOMES AND TRAILERS BEING
5/11/96 TRIMBLE EVACUATED FROM KY 421 AND 42.
FLOODING/FLASH FLOODING
CVOUNTY-WIDE. WORST FLOODING
IN MANY YEARS.
KIRKPATRICKSpecial weather statement, May 11, 1:48 AM EDT, 22 minutes before
KYZ001>023-026-027-061-062-070-110615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 142 AM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY VALID UNTIL 400 AM CD^T HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS DIMINISHED GREATLY OVER THE WATCH AREA...HOWEVER NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY. VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 12:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 4 hr |
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.