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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Louisville, KY

April 28, 1999Hardin County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1999, 6:44 PM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 61 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
Apr 28, 1999, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1999, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Hardin County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 1999-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1999-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1325 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Apr 28, 2:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 2:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
250 PM EDT WED APR 28 1999

WARMING OF THE MOIST / LOW LAYERS PLUS COLD AIR SWEEPING IN ALOFT..
HAS INSTIGATED NUMEROUS SHWRS/TSTMS ACRS FA THIS AFTN.  MODELS VERY
SIMILIAR IN TAKING SRN IL VERTICALLY STACKED LOW  SEWD OVNGT INTO
TN BY THU MRNG.  THE SHORT TERM CONCENTRATION  OF PCPN SHUD BE ACRS
CNTRL KY/SRN IND NEAR LOW  LVL CONVG BNDRY... AXIS OF 1000-2000J/KG
CAPES...THETA E RDG AXIS... AND ON NOSE OF WLY JET STREAK. WILL HIT
POPS HARD TNGT MUCH OF FA..WITH A DMNSHG TREND NRN PART OF FA AFTER
MIDNIGHT. LARGE HAIL AGAIN WILL BE THE PRIMARY SVR WX MODE THRU THE
EVNG. TEMPS OK FM FAN/FWC GUIDE.

AS TROFFINESS THEN SLIPS SOUTH THRU RGN ON THU...CLDS/PCPN SHUD ALSO
SLIP SOUTH WITH TIME.  WILL  HOLD ONTO SML PCPN CHC SDF-LEX CORRIDOR
ERY...AND KEEP CHCS GOING SRN KY ALL DAY. HAVE PLAYED A BIT MORE OF
A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH WITH CLEARING NRN SECTIONS THU AFTN...AS
SOUNDING INFO STILL SHOWS LINGERING LOW LVL MOIST.

AS FLOW BECOMES MORE ANTICYCLONIC WITH TIME AND TROF SLIPS INTO THE
DEEP SOUTH... QUIET WX WILL ENCOMPASSE ENTIRE FA FOR THE END OF THE
WORK WEEK.

H85 THERMAL PTN...PLUS GOING THICKNESSS...SUPPORTS FWC/FAN GUIDE
OF COOLING TREND THRU FRI.

.SDF...NONE.
STUREY

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson32 min
Apr 28, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNelson, Spencer30 min
Apr 28, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt29 min
Apr 28, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson32 min
Apr 28, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry, Oldham32 min
Apr 28, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTrimble25 min
Apr 28, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin, Meade29 min
Apr 28, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAdair30 min
Apr 27, 10:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois45 min
Apr 28, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPerry23 min
Apr 28, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford46 min
Apr 28, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison44 min
Apr 28, 4:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKCrawford2 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.