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Flash Flood Warning 152, NWS Louisville, KY

June 30, 1997Bourbon County, Nicholas County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1997, 7:10 PM EDT for Bourbon County, Nicholas County, Kentucky. It was in force for 80 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 30, 1997, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1997, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
80 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bourbon County, KY, Nicholas County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 435 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 302307
FFWSDF
KYC017-181-010040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
710 PM EDT MON JUN 30 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  NORTHEASTERN BOURBON COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  NICHOLAS COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MILLERSBURG...NOW
  CARLISLE...NOW

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST BOURBON AND NICHOLAS
  COUNTIES CONTINUE TO DUMP HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE REGION. DOPPLER
  RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN
  SPOTS SINCE 6 PM EDT.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
  MORE HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY THROUGH 815 PM...ON THE ORDER OF ANOTHER
  INCH ORt TWO IN SOME LOCATIONS.  THIS COULD START FLASH FLOODING...
  ESPECIALLY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND TO ESCAPE THE RISING WATERS.

STUREY/WHW

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.