Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS SDF
NWS SDF issued this flash flood warning at Feb 18, 2000, 12:37 PM EST for 6 counties in Kentucky; 6 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 4 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
- Feb 18, 2000, 12:37 PM EST (17:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS SDF
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dubois County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Meade County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Trimble County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 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 181739 FFWSDF INC037-077-117-123-143-175-KYC103-111-163-185-211-223-182130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1237 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY OLDHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY SHELBY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY TRIMBLE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 430 PM EST * AT 1230 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ... MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH ON BOTH SIDES OF THE OHIO RIVER ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. * SEVERAL ROADWAYS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WERE CLOSED OR IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CLOSED DUE TO FLOWING WATER DEPTH OF 6 INCHES TO 2 FEET. TRAINING HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREAS AND EXTENDED WEST INTO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND ADDITIONAL RAINS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WnATER COVERS THE ROAD! KIRKPATRICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS SDF issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Franklin, Harrison, Scott | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Henry, Jefferson, Meade, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble | 4 hr |
| Feb 18, 5:33 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Franklin, Harrison, Scott | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 5:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Bullitt, Spencer | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 6:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Anderson, Bourbon, Fayette, Nicholas, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison | 4 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison | 2 hr |
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.