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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Louisville, KY

December 16, 2000Harrison County, Scott County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 16, 2000, 6:00 PM EST for Harrison County, Scott County, Kentucky. 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
Dec 16, 2000, 6:00 PM EST (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Dec 16, 2000, 8:30 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harrison County, KY, Scott County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-12-16Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-12-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 550 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
550 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
543 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 162303
FFWLMK
KYC097-209-170130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
600 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HARRISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 830 PM EST

* AT 555 PM EST... WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER
  AREA OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTH...OUT OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.
  THIS HEAVY RAIN SHOULD OVERSPREAD SCOTT AND HARRISON COUNTIES
  BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM.

  RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
  TODAY IN SCOTT AND HARRISON COUNTIES. THE NEW HEAVY RAIN...WITH
  AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR TWO...WILL ONLY AGGREVATE THE CURRENT
  SITUATION.

  CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE LIKELY TO GO OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN PLACES.
  MEANWHILE...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS THAT SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS ARE
  COVERED WITH WATER.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS...IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO JUDGE THE ACTUAL DEPTH OF THE
WATER. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

STUREY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 16, 3:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMadison26 min
Dec 16, 4:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKScott115 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.