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Flash Flood Warning 141, NWS Louisville, KY

June 8, 1997Breckinridge County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1997, 12:27 AM CDT for Breckinridge 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
Jun 8, 1997, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1997, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Breckinridge County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1997-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 123 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1997-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 12:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge3 hr
Jun 8, 12:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge3 hr
Jun 8, 12:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKHancock2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.