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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Louisville, KY

June 10, 19984 counties in Kentucky

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1998-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3323 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1998-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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 DOWN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 12:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKHardin, Meade30 min
Jun 10, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson35 min
Jun 10, 1:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Nelson34 min
Jun 10, 1:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette19 min
Jun 10, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan43 min
Jun 10, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson32 min
Jun 10, 5:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson2 hr
Jun 10, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWarren47 min
Jun 10, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKSimpson33 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.