Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1998, 10:32 AM CDT for Barren County, Monroe 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 14, 1998, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barren County, KY, Monroe County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 14, 10:06 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1106 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1105 AM BOWLING GREEN KY 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/98 WARREN DES REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL JUST WEST OF BOLWING
GREENLocal storm report, Jun 14, 10:07 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1107 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1106 AM BOWLING GREEN KY 1 INCH HAIL
06/14/98 WARREN DES REPORTED QUARTER SIZE
HAIL.Local storm report, Jun 14, 10:08 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1108 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1107 AM MEADOR KY 1 INCH HAIL
06/14/98 ALLEN SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER
SIZE HAIL.Local storm report, Jun 14, 10:12 AM CDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1112 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 AM BOWLING GREEN KY 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/98 WARREN DES REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL JUST WEST OF BOLWING
GREEN
TIME OF EVENT CHANGEDLocal storm report, Jun 14, 10:14 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1114 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1020 AM BOWLING GREEN KY 1 INCH HAIL
06/14/98 WARREN DES REPORTED QUARTER SIZE
HAIL.
TIME OF EVENT CORRECTEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 9:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Simpson, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Monroe | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 10:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Monroe | 118 min |
| Jun 14, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Shelby | 35 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.