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Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 18, 1997, 11:55 AM CST for Butler County, Grayson County, Ohio 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, 11:55 AM CST (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1997, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Ohio County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 181801 FFWSDF KYC183-031-085-182100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1255 PM EST (1155 AM CST) TUE MAR 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST (300 PM CST) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST KENTUCKY ...OHIO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BUTLER COUNTY...GRAYSON COUNTY AT 12:55 PM CST (11:55 AM CST)...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING 1.0 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL PER HOUR WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WILL AFFECT THIS AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AND FLOODING OF SOME ROADWAYS...LOW LYING AREAS...AND THOSE AREAS NORMALLY PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING...WILL BE AFFECTED. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. RESIDENTS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA SHOULD MONIT`OR THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS. MCT/RC
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, 11:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 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 |
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.