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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Louisville, KY

September 7, 1996Laurel County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 7, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT for Laurel County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 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
Sep 7, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Laurel County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 247 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1146 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 11:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark35 min
Sep 7, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCasey34 min
Sep 7, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMcCreary37 min
Sep 7, 3:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKGreen33 min
Sep 7, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen33 min
Sep 7, 4:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKMcCreary78 min
Sep 7, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLaurel44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.