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Flash Flood Warning 138, NWS Louisville, KY

May 19, 1997Jessamine County, Mercer County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 1997, 6:04 PM EDT for Jessamine County, Mercer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 56 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: May 19, 1997, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jessamine County, KY, Mercer County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 192203
FFWSDF
KYC113-167-192300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
604 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  JESSAMINE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  MERCER COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
 
* AT 6 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD
FALLEN ACROSS THESE COUNTIES DURING THE PAST THREE HOURS. DURING THE
NEXT HOUR...THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOR,MS SHOULD GRADUALLY DECREASE
IN INTENSITY...BUT BEFORE THIS HAPPENS ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN
IS POSSIBLE.

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
TO ESCAPE THE RISING WATERS.

STUREY/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

Local storm report, May 19, 3:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
348 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0243 PM    HODGENVILLE               KY   WIND DAMAGE
05/19/97   LARUE                          2 MILES E... SEMI TRUCK
                                          BLOWN OVER AND SEVERAL
                                          TREES BLOWN DOWN

Local storm report, May 19, 4:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
410 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0340 PM    HARDINSBURG               KY   SEVERAL TREES DOWN REPORTED
05/19/97   BRECKINRIDGE                   BY DISPATCH. WINDS ESTIMATED
                                          AT 60 MPH.

Local storm report, May 19, 4:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
410 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0340 PHM    HARDINSBURG               KY   SEVERAL TREES DOWN REPORTED
05/19/97   BRECKINRIDGE                   BY DISPATCH. WINDS ESTIMATED
                                          AT 60 MPH.

Local storm report, May 19, 5:54 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
554 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

515-545 PM  NE PART  OF COUNTY      KY    INTERSECTION OF CUMMINGS
05/19/97    MERCER                        FERRY AND UNITY PIKE NEAR
                                          HWY 127 HAD 3 FEET OF FLOWING
                                          WATER ACROSS THE ROAD.

 COX

Local storm report, May 19, 5:55 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
554 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

515-545 PM  NE PART  OF COUNTY      KY    INTERSECTION OF CUMMINGS
05/19/97    MERCER                        FERRY AND UNITY PIKE NEAR
                                          HWY 127 HAD 3 FEET OF FLOWING
                                          WATER ACROSS THE ROAD.

 COX

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	34 min
May 19, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	29 min
May 19, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Woodford	29 min
May 19, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Ohio	48 min
May 19, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	31 min
May 19, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	24 min
May 19, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	34 min
May 19, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	26 min
May 19, 4:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	70 min
May 19, 5:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue, Nelson	79 min
May 19, 5:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Washington	79 min

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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.