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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY

April 7, 2000Breckinridge County, Jefferson County, Meade County, Kentucky; Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 7, 2000, 10:12 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Jefferson County, Meade County, Kentucky; Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 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
Apr 7, 2000, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Meade County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 00:00Z on 2000-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 46 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 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
46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-319 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 080312
FFWLMK
INC043-061-KYC027-111-163-080600-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1111 PM EDT (1011 PM CDT) FRI APR 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT (200 AM EDT)

* AT 1107 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG AND NORTH OF THE OHIO
  RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED
  AREA.  BETWEEN ONE HALF AND ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN
  ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER HALF INCH IS POSSIBLE BEFORE
  ENDING AROUND 100 AM EDT.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGER OF FLOODING.

.END/RC/CS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison32 min
Apr 7, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFloyd, Harrison17 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.