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Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 1997, 8:15 AM EST for 4 counties in Indiana; Meade County, Kentucky. 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
- Mar 18, 1997, 8:15 AM EST (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1997, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Orange County, IN, Washington County, IN, Meade County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1369 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 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 181320 FFWSDF INC019-025-043-061-117-175-KYC029-093-111-163-185-181715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 815 AM EST TUE MAR 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...CLARK COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY...FLOYD COUNTY ...HARRISON COUNTY...ORANGE COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BULLITT COUNTY...NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY ...MEADE COUNTY...OLDHAM COUNTY AT 815 AM EST...DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT BETWEEN ONE HALF AND ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTIES IN THE WARNED AREA...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS OVER TWO INCHES. NINE TENTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN WAS REPORTED BETWEEN 7 AM AND 8 AM AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. CREEKS AND STREAMS WERE STARTING TO COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS. NEW RAINFALL BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH NOON ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...WHICH WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING. 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. STUREY/MCT/CALLAHAN &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Floyd | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:25 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:25 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson, Ohio | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 14 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:25 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson | 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.