Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 151, NWS Louisville, KY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 11:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 12:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 68 min |
| Jun 21, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 68 min |
| Jun 21, 1:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Oldham | 77 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.