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Flash Flood Warning 144, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 1997Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1997, 5:05 PM EDT for Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 90 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, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 6:35 PM EDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 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

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The text

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

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, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 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 DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
431 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0315 PM    GARRETT                   KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97   MEADE                          TREES UPROOTED NEAR
                                          GARRETT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:46 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
446 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0444 PM    RICHMOND                  KY   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   MADISON

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:47 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
446 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0444 PM    RICHMOND                  KY   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   MADISON

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:50 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
450 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0444 PM    5 S LAWRENCEBURG          KY   FLOODING
06/13/97   ANDERSON                       WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          3 RAINFALL IN PAST HOUR.
                                          ALSO FLOODING ACROSS
                                          PROPERTY AND WATER ACROSS
                                          COUNTY ROADS.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:55 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
450 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0444 PM    5 S LAWRENCEBURG          KY   FLOODING
06/13/97   ANDERSON                       WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          3" RAINFALL IN PAST HOUR.
                                          ALSO FLOODING ACROSS
                                          PROPERTY AND WATER ACROSS
                                          COUNTY ROADS.

The 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, 4:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Jessamine, Woodford	92 min
Jun 13, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	33 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, 1997 Every 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.