Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 1998, 2:21 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 99 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 29, 1998, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 99 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 291821 FFWSDF KYC067-292000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 221 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 215 PM EDT ... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM BOURBON COUNTY...WEST THROUGH FAYETTE AND WOODFORD COUNTY...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO BUILD BACK TO THE WEST AND MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THIS TRAINING OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. 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 29, 9:13 AM EDT, 5 hours 8 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 37 minutes 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, 1:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 2 hr |
| 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.