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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1996, 1:13 AM EDT for Fleming County, Rowan County, Kentucky. 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
- Jun 23, 1996, 1:13 AM EDT (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fleming County, KY, Rowan County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 230510 FFWSDF KYC069-205-230815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 113 AM EDT SUN JUN 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...FLEMING COUNTY...ROWAN COUNTY AT 12:49 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED MORE RAIN MOVING INTO FLEMING AND ROWAN COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY. THE RAINFALL WAS NOT EXTREMLY HEAVY BUT THIS RAIN IS IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVIER RAINFALLS EARLIER TONIGHT. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IN NORTHERN ROWAN COUNTY AND THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL ADD TO THE FLOOD PROBLEM AND OVER SATURATED GROUND. DUE TO THE RAINFALL AND WITH AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING...THE WARNING WILL CONTINUE TO 4 AM EDT. 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. WHW &
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, Jun 23, 12:14 AM EDT, 59 minutes before
KYZ001>022-035>037-039>044-047>052-054>120-INZ090>092-230525- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1219 AM EDT (1119 PM CDT) SUN JUN 23 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST KENTUCKY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 673 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 2AM EDT... BRACKEN...ROBERTSON...FLEMING...ROWAN...ELLIOT...MORGAN...MAGOFFIN ...JOHNSON...LEWIS...AND MASON. SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES TO BE POSSIBLE IN THESE COUNTIES. IN ADDITION HEAVY RAINS MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 673 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANAr. SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER A THREAT IN THOSE COUNTIES. SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE HOWEVER. RNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rowan | 42 min |
| Jun 23, 12:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fleming, Rowan | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 1:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 2:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bath, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 31 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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.