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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY

April 29, 1996Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1996, 1:45 AM EST for Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 75 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
Apr 29, 1996, 1:45 AM EST (06:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1996, 3:00 AM EST
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 216 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

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, Apr 28, 9:54 PM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
KYZ001>016-018-290600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1045 PM EDT SUN APR 28 1996

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF WEST KENTUCKY THAT WAS IN
EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THE IMMEDIATE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS TO HAVE ENDED.
HOWEVER...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
OVERNIGHT IN WEST KENTUCKY...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE.
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE :EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WEST KENTUCKY
TOWARD MORNING...WITH A FEW OF THOSE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING
STRONG OR EVEN SEVERE.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF FAR WEST KENTUCKY
OVERNIGHT.

FUNK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 10:46 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKCrawford, Dubois, Orange, Washington4 hr
Apr 28, 10:46 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKScott4 hr
Apr 29, 12:02 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson3 hr
Apr 29, 6:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKClark, Jefferson, Scott4 hr
Apr 29, 6:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKCrawford, Floyd, Harrison, Washington4 hr
Apr 29, 6:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKDubois, Orange4 hr
Apr 29, 6:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry4 hr
Apr 29, 1:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison34 min
Apr 29, 2:53 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson2 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.