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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Louisville, KY

June 22, 1998Bourbon County, Clark County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1998, 5:49 PM EDT for Bourbon County, Clark County, Kentucky. It was in force for 116 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 22, 1998, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1998, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 571 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 222149
FFWSDF
KYC017-049-097-222345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
549 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BOURBON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  HARRISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 545 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS BOURBON...HARRISON...AND
  CLARK COUNTIES ... MOVING SLOWLY EAST.

* DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS
  SINCE 5PM EDT.  UP TO 1 INCH ADDITIONAL RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH 
730 PM EDT

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

RNK

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 22, 4:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
412 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0345 PM    LA GRANGE                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   OLDHAM                          TREES DOWN. REPORT FROM
                                           STATE POLICE.

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
444 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0325 PM    BEDFORD                   KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   TRIMBLE                         TREES AND POWERS LINES
                                           DOWN IN NUMEROUS
                                           LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT
                                           COUNTY

0325 PM    LA GRANGE                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   OLDHAM

0325 PM    NEW CASTLE                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   HENRY                           TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN IN NUMEROUS
                                           LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT
                                           COUNTY

0430 PM    MT WASHINGTON             KY    60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/98   BULLITT                         WINDS ESTIMATED BY OFF
                                           DUTY WEATHER SERVICE
                                           EMPLOYEE

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:21 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
521 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0340 PM    LA GRANGE                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   OLDHAM                          *** 2 INJ ***
                                           TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN ALONG US 42
                                           THROUGHOUT COUNTY.
                                           INJURIES CAUSED BY
                                           TREES FALLING, ONE ON A
                                           HOUSE.

0430 PM    SHELBYVILLE               KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   SHELBY                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN

0445 PM    1 N BARDSTOWN             KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   NELSON                          TREES DOWN

0455 PM    FRANKFORT                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   FRANKLIN                        TREES DOWN

0455 PM    LAWRENCEBURG              KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   ANDERSON                        TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN

0455 PM    WILLISBURG                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   WASHINGTON                      TREES DOWN BLOCKING
                                           ROADS IN MANY PARTS OF
                                           COUNTY

0500 PM    PARIS                     KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   BOURBON                         TREES DOWN IN CITY AND
                                           SW PART OF COUNTY

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:26 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
526 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0340 PM    SELLERSBURG               IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   CLARK                           TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN COUNTY WIDE.
                                           REPORT FROM STATE POLICE.

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:32 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
532 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0515 PM    LEXINGTON                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   FAYETTE                         TREES DOWN ALONG
                                           VERSAILLES ROAD FROM
                                           COUNTY DISPATCH.

0515 PM    VERSAILLES                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   WOODFORD                        TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY

0520 PM    NICHOLASVILLE             KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   JESSAMINE                       TREEW AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN FROM COUNTY DISPATCH

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:41 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
541 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0520 PM    GEORGETOWN                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   SCOTT                           TREES DOWN AND WATER
                                           OVER ROADS. REPORT FROM
                                           COUNTY  DISPATCH

0525 PM    CYNTHIANA                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   HARRISON                        TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN.  REPORT FROM
                                           COUNTY DISPATCH.

0530 PM    PARIS                     KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   BOURBON                         WINDS OF 55 MPH. SMALL
                                           TREES DOWN. REPORT FROM
                                           LEXINGTON AMATEUR RADIO.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	33 min
Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	35 min
Jun 22, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	28 min
Jun 22, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	27 min
Jun 22, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson, Spencer	27 min
Jun 22, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	27 min
Jun 22, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Washington	30 min
Jun 22, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	27 min
Jun 22, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	27 min
Jun 22, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	30 min
Jun 22, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	31 min
Jun 22, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Madison	31 min
Jun 22, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Lincoln	31 min
Jun 22, 5:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison	116 min
Jun 22, 6:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Larue	2 hr
Jun 22, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	32 min

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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.