Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 104, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 12:30 AM EST for Clark County, Kentucky. It was in force for 90 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
- Mar 2, 1997, 12:30 AM EST (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 020531 FFWSDF KYC049-079-151-045-137-020700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1230 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...CLARK COUNTY...GARRARD COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...CASEY COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY AT 1225AM EST WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LEXINGTON...SOUTH TO WEST OF LIBERTY IN CASEY COUNTY. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. AS THESE STORMS REACH AND PASS THROUGH THE WARNED COUNTIES ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED. STORM TOTAL PRECIPITATION OVER THESE AREAS SINCE FRIDAY NIGHT HAS BEEN BETWEEN 2 AND 6 INCHES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF lFLOODS 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. RNK
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
Local storm report, Mar 2, 12:12 AM EST, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1212 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1200 AM VNCTY GLASGOW KY SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
3/2/97 BARREN CHAIRS REPORTED
FLYING THROUGH THE
AIR. REPORTED BY
BOWLING GREEN KSP.
RNKLocal storm report, Mar 2, 12:13 AM EST, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1212 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1200 AM VNCTY GLASGOW KY SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
3/2/97 BARREN CHAIRS REPORTED
FLYING THROUGH THE
^ AIR. REPORTED BY
BOWLING GREEN KSP.
RNKLocal storm report, Mar 2, 12:19 AM EST, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1219 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1210 AM SOUTH WEST KY MARBLE-DIME SIZE HAIL.
3/2/97 GREEN REPORTED BY GREEN CO
DES.
RNKLocal storm report, Mar 2, 12:21 AM EST, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1219 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... .j..REMARKS...
1210 AM SOUTH WEST KY MARBLE-DIME SIZE HAIL.
3/2/97 GREEN REPORTED BY GREEN CO
DES.
RNKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 38 min |
| Mar 1, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 8:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Meade | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Oldham | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Trimble | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Spencer | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson, Ohio | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Metcalfe | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Scott | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 11:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 11:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Ohio | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe, Monroe | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Trimble | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 12:27 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Russell | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 12:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln, Madison | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Casey | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 12:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 26 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.