Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1996, 6:45 AM EST for Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 4 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
- Apr 29, 1996, 6:45 AM EST (11:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 291146 FFWSDF INC019-025-037-043-061-077-117-123-143-175-291545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 745 AM EDT (645 AM EST) MON APR 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EDT (1045 AM EST) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...CLARK COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY...DUBOIS COUNTY ...NORTHERN FLOYD COUNTY...NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY ...JEFFERSON COUNTY...ORANGE COUNTY...PERRY COUNTY...SCOTT COUNTY ...WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 745 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED FROM 2 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS. MORE SPECIFICALLY 4.50 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SCOTTSBURG IN SCOTT COUNTY. IN JASPER...DUBUOIS COUNTY 5.4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED AND 5.0 INCHES IN MARENGO...NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT MANY ROADS CLOSED ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA DUE TO HIGH WATER. ANOTHER 1/2 TO 1 INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH NOON EDT. ALL SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS CAN BE EXPECTED TO LEAVE THEIR BANKS AND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE FLOODED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER 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. & COX
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 29, 4:43 AM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
KYZ014>024-026-027-061-062-070>072-291015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 546 AM EDT MON APR 29 1996 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #262 FOR PARTS OF WEST KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE IMMEDIATE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. HOWEVER... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY IN WEST KENTUCKY...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS fOF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY TODAY. COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 10:46 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Washington | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:46 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Scott | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 75 min |
| Apr 29, 6:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Washington | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 2:53 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 2 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.