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Flash Flood Warning 151, NWS Louisville, KY

June 21, 1997Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1997, 3:25 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 65 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 21, 1997, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1997, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1908 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1908 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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 212027
FFWSDF
KYC227-212130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
425 PM EDT (325 PM CDT) SAT JUN 21 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT (530 PM EDT)
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RICH POND...PLANO AND ALVATON

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
  A PERSISTENT CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES OVER SOUTHERN WARREN
  COUNTY...AND HAVE SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT OVER THE LAST 15
  MINUTES. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED BETWEEN ONE AND ONE HALF /1.50/
  AND TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES /2.50/ OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
  AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAINFALL IS LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHERN WARREN
  COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM EDT.

THIS UPGRADES THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY.

IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN YOUR AREA...BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY.
SEEK SHELTER AWAY FROM LOW LYING AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.

DEWALD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 11:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKGrayson60 min
Jun 21, 11:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGrayson60 min
Jun 21, 11:34 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKEdmonson, Warren2 hr
Jun 21, 11:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEdmonson61 min
Jun 21, 12:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKHardin64 min
Jun 21, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin59 min
Jun 21, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin64 min
Jun 21, 1:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson68 min
Jun 21, 1:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson68 min
Jun 21, 1:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKOldham77 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.