Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 128, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 1997, 11:27 AM CST for Logan County, Simpson County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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, 11:27 AM CST (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1997, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Warren County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 181734 FFWSDF KYC141-213-227-182030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1227 PM EST (1127 AM CST) TUE MAR 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EST (230 PM CST) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...LOGAN COUNTY...SIMPSON COUNTY...WARREN COUNTY AT 1230 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN KENTUCKY...AND THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ALSO ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 1130 AM EST ACROSS PARTS OF LOGAN...SIMPSON AND WARREN COUNTIES. MORE HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS IN THE WARNING REGION...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AROUND 1 INCH. THE NEW RAINFALL WILL BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE 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/COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 7:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Meade | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 7:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 7:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 11:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson, Ohio | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 14 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson | 2 hr |
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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.