Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1998, 12:45 AM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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 13, 1998, 12:45 AM EDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 130446 FFWSDF KYC093-130700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1245 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 300 AM EDT * AT 1245 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM ELIZABETHTOWN NORTH... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS HARDIN COUNTY. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS BEEN ESTIMATED IN THE LAST HOUR. NUMEROUS ROADS WILL BECOME FLOODED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDERn TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLOODING. CS/VLD
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
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 10:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-089>100-INZ076>079-084-090>092- 130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1007 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF EAST KENTUCKY THROUGH 4 AM EDT. THE WATCH IS EAST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF COVINGTON THROUGH FRANKFORT TO STANFORDAND THEN EAST TO PIKEVILLE. A COLD FRONT FROM CHICAGO TO ST LOUIS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS KENTUCKY TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR IN THE WATCH AREA...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. A TORNADO WATCH ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST KENTUCKY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REITMEYER
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 10:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-089>100-INZ076>079-084-090>092- 130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1007 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF EAST KENTUCKY THROUGH 4 AM EDT. THE WATCH IS EAST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF COVINGTON THROUGH FRANKFORT TO STANFORDAND THEN EAST TO PIKEVILLE. A COLD FRONT FROM CHICAGO TO ST LOUIS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS KENTUCKY TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR IN THE WATCH AREA...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. A TORNADO WATCH ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST KENTUCKY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REITMEYER
Local storm report, Jun 12, 11:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1124 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 FLOYD NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS
THE COUNTY.
1050 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 MEADE TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE
1100 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 OLDHAM SEVERAL TREES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE. REPORT FROM
STATE POLICE.Local storm report, Jun 12, 11:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1142 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1040 PM JEFFERSONVILLE IN WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 CLARK POWER LINES DOWN.
1135 PM WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 SHELBY BUILDING COLLAPSED. TREES
AND POWERLocal storm report, Jun 13, 12:09 AM EDT, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1209 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM ELK CREEK KY WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 SPENCER TREES DOWN SOUTH OF ELK
CREEK.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 10:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 19 min |
| Jun 12, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Shelby, Spencer | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 11:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 1:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 31 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.