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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Louisville, KY

August 27, 1996Edmonson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1996, 6:12 PM CDT for Edmonson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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: Aug 27, 1996, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Edmonson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 272316
FFWSDF
KYC061-280115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
712 PM EDT (612 PM CDT) TUE AUG 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EDT (815 PM CDT)
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...EDMONSON COUNTY
 
AT 710 PM EDT (610 PM CDT)...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OVER EDMONSON COUNTY...DUMPING BETWEEN ONE AND
ONE HALF /1.5/ AND TWO INCHES /2.00/ OF RAINFALL OVER THE LAST HOUR OR
SO...ESPECIALLY EAST OF BROWNSVILLE IN THE MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL
PARK AREA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP OVER THE
AREA...AND THUS AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR MORE OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE OVER
THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.
 
LOCAL LAW ENFOREMENT FROM EDMONSON COUNTY INDICATED THAT MINOR STREET
FLOODING WAS ALREADY OCCURING IN BROWNSVILLE. WITH THE HILLY TERRAIN
OVER THE COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE MAMMOTH CAVE AREA...FLASH FLOODING
IS POSSIBLE...AND SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL FILL
WITH WATER QUICKLY.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATEfR DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
&
 
AB/VLD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	27 min
Aug 27, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark	50 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1996 Every 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.