Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 22, 1999, 5:36 PM CST for 6 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 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 22, 1999, 5:36 PM CST (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 10:25 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Logan County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Warren County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 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 KSDF 222338 FFWSDF INC025-037-043-061-117-123-175-KYC027-031-061-085-091-141-163- 183-213-227-230425- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 636 PM EST (536 PM CST) FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY GRAYSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY OHIO COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY SIMPSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1025 PM CST (1125 PM EST) * AT 630 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN FROM SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY NORTHWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL TRAIN OVER AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS. SOME ROADWAYS HAVE ALREADY BEEN CLOSED WITH WATER DEPTH OF 6 INCHES TO A FOOT. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAIN SHOULD FALL OVER THE WARNED AREAS BY MIDNIGHT WHICH WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING OVER A WIDESPREAD AREA OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN CARS. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADS...BRIDGES...DIPS OR LOW SPOTS COVERED BY WATER. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW SAFE PASSAGE. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE..ON FOOT. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF NECESSARY. KIRKPATRICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 5:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 5:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Meade | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 5:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Simpson | 5 hr |
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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.