Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1998, 1:45 PM EDT for Bourbon 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 29, 1998, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bourbon County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 749 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 291744 FFWSDF KYC017-292000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 145 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOURBON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 140 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST NORTH OF LEXINGTON... MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED ACROSS BOURBON COUNTY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN YOUR AREA. DO NOT ATTMEPT TO CROSS ROADWAYS COVERED BY WATER. 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 29, 9:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
252 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0248 PM (LEX)BLU GRS FLD LEXINGTONKY 55 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/98 FAYETTE FAYETTE COUNTY DISPATCH
REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN COUNTY WIDE.
FLASH FLOODING WAS ALSO
REPORTED WITHIN THE
CITY OF LEXINGTON.Local storm report, Jun 29, 9:44 AM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
324 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0321 PM LEXINGTON KY FLOOD
06/29/98 FAYETTE 17 TO 18 INCHES OF
WATER ON RICHMOND RD.
IN LEXINGTON. MOST
f ROADS IN AND OUT OF
LEXINGTON FLOODED.
REPORTED BY HAM OPERATOR.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette | 99 min |
| Jun 29, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette | 33 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.