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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY

June 14, 1998Barren County, Monroe County, Kentucky

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 118 min. 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, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
118 min
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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1998-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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 1998-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 254 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 141533
FFWSDF
KYC009-171-141730-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1132 AM EDT (1032 AM CDT) SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT (130 PM EDT)

* AT 1027 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR THE TRACY AREA...25
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN AND AREAS... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE TRACY AND FOUNTAIN RUN
  AREAS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS.
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE RANGED FROM 1 TO 2 AND HALF INCHES DURING
  THE LAST HOUR ACROSS THE BOWLING GREEN AREAS. THIS RAIN IS
  EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN BARREN AND MONROE COUNTY AREAS
  DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.

DrON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

REC/DK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 9:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWarren34 min
Jun 14, 9:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLogan33 min
Jun 14, 9:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAllen32 min
Jun 14, 10:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKAllen, Simpson, Warren3 hr
Jun 14, 10:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKLogan3 hr
Jun 14, 10:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren, Monroe51 min
Jun 14, 10:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBarren, Monroe2 hr
Jun 14, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark27 min
Jun 14, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry, Oldham, Shelby35 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.