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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 1997, 8:13 PM EST for Crawford County, Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana; Jefferson County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 1997, 8:13 PM EST (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, KY, Meade County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 020115 FFWSDF INC019-025-043-061-123-KYC027-029-111-163-185-091-020515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 813 PM EST (713 PM CST) SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 AM EST (1100 PM CST) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...CLARK COUNTY...CRAWFORD COUNTY...FLOYD COUNTY ...HARRISON COUNTY...PERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY...BULLITT COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY ...MEADE COUNTY...OLDHAM COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...HANCOCK COUNTY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED BETWEEN 4 AND 8 INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE LAST NIGHT. RAINFALL RATES FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS COULD BE AS MUCH AS 2 INCHES PER HOUR. WITH FLOODING IN PROGRESS ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION...THE NEW RAINFALL WILL ONLY MAKE THE FLOODING MORE SEVERE. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OrBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. STUREY &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 8:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 38 min |
| Mar 1, 8:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Trimble | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:19 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Spencer | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson, Ohio | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Metcalfe | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Scott | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 11:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 11:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Ohio | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe, Monroe | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Trimble | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 12:27 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Russell | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 12:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln, Madison | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Casey | 90 min |
| Mar 2, 12:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 26 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.