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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 1999, 12:30 AM EST for Oldham County, Trimble County, Kentucky. It was in force for 6 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
- Jan 23, 1999, 12:30 AM EST (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 1999, 6:30 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Oldham County, KY, Trimble County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 553 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLMK 230531 FFWSDF INC019-077-143-KYC003-009-029-087-093-099-111-123-169-171-185- 223-231130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1230 AM EST (1130 PM CST) SAT JAN 23 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY BULLITT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HART COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY LARUE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY METCALFE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY OLDHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY TRIMBLE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 630 AM EST (530 AM CST) * AT 1230 AM EST (1130 PM CST)... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. * THIS AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN BY SUNRISE. SO FAR...DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED DURING THE PAST 18 HOURS. SEVERAL ROADS HAVE BEEN CLOSED IN ALLEN COUNTY AND HIGH WATER HAS BLOCKED SEVERAL ROADS IN CLARK AND SCOTT COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. DON'T DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS...BRIDGES...DIPS OR LOW SPOTS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. KIRKPATRICK/MARIEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 7:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson, Oldham | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 7:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 7:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Trimble | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 7:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Hardin, Hart | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Ohio | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Meade | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hancock | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Hart, Jefferson, Larue | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Monroe | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.