Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1998, 6:12 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen County, KY, Logan County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Warren County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 3323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 102313 FFWSDF KYC003-141-213-227-110215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 712 PM EDT (612 PM CDT) WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY SIMPSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 915 PM CDT (1015 PM EDT) * AT 715 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CENTERED NEAR BOWLING GREEN... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * ADDITIONAL RAINS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL FALL OVER THE WARNED COUNTIES BY 9 PM EDT. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! KIRKPATRICK/KLEIN
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 10, 1:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
238 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 PM FLAHERTY KY WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 MEADE TRAILERS BLOWN OFF
FOUNDATION, POWER LINES -
TREES DOWN, WINDOWS BLOWN
OUT
0215 PM COXS CREEK KY WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 NELSON TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 35 min |
| Jun 10, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 19 min |
| Jun 10, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 5:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 33 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.