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Flash Flood Warning 143, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1997, 4:08 PM EDT for Anderson County, Jessamine County, Woodford County, Kentucky. It was in force for 92 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
- Jun 13, 1997, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 5:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Anderson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 673 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 132010 FFWSDF KYC005-113-239-132140- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 408 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997 * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ANDERSON COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY JESSAMINE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY WOODFORD COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 540 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED LAWRENCEBURG VERSAILLES NICHOLASVILLE * CAUSE AND EFFECT NWS DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN THESE COUNTIES...AS NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MOVED OVER THE AREA. * FORECAST CONDITIONS ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT...AND ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE YET THIS AFTERNOON. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE THE RISING WATERS. DEWALD
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, Jun 13, 3:41 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
341 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM RAMSEY IN WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97 HARRISON TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
0330 PM ELIZABETH IN WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97 HARRISON TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNLocal storm report, Jun 13, 3:47 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
341 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM RAMSEY IN WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97 HARRISON TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
0330 PM ELIZABETH IN WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97 HARRISON TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Madison | 90 min |
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Simpson, Warren | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Grayson | 42 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.