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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Louisville, KY

May 28, 1996Estill County, Powell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 1996, 10:41 AM EDT for Estill County, Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 119 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 28, 1996, 10:41 AM EDT (14:41 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 12:40 PM EDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Estill County, KY, Powell County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 178 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 290246 COR
FFWSDF
KYC065-173-197-281640-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1041 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1240 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

   ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY
   ...POWELL COUNTY
   ...MENIFEE COUNTY

THREE QUARTERS TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN
POWELLL...MONTGOMERY...MENIFEE COUNTIES SINCE 930 PM EDT. DOPPLER RADAR
AND IFLOWS GAUGES CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
WILL CONTINUE TO ADD ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FOR THE NEXT HOUR.

RESIDENTS OF THE ABOVE LOCATIONS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE
TRAVELING TONIGHT...AS SOME SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS MAY BE
COVERED BY FLOODWATERS.

RESIDENTS SHOULD ALSO USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING
TONIGHT...AS SOME SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS MAY BE
COVERED BY FLOODWATERS.
&
LD/JRB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 10:41 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Montgomery	119 min
May 28, 6:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan	43 min
May 28, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	69 min
May 28, 6:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	46 min
May 28, 6:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Warren	48 min
May 28, 7:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Spencer	45 min
May 28, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	29 min
May 28, 7:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson	41 min
May 28, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	47 min
May 28, 7:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren	44 min
May 28, 7:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Shelby	20 min
May 28, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin	38 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.