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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 22, 1999, 7:40 PM EST for Clark County, Jefferson County, Scott County, Indiana. 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, 7:40 PM EST (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 1999, 12:30 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Scott County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 KSDF 230042 FFWSDF INC019-077-143-KYC003-009-029-093-099-111-185-223-230530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 740 PM EST (640 PM CST) FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY BULLITT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HART COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH 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 1130 PM CST (1230 AM EST) * AT 730 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS OVER AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED AS MUCH AS 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS. AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS HAVE REPORTED ROADWAYS UNDER 6 TO 12 INCHES OF WATER...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. ONE TO THREE INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL SHOULD FALL OVER THE WARNED AREA BY MIDNIGHT WHICH WILL LEAD TO A WIDESPREAD AREA OF FLASH FLOODING ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND 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, 11:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison, Perry | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Floyd | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 12:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.