Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS SDF
NWS SDF issued this flash flood warning at Jan 3, 2000, 6:20 PM CST for Breckinridge County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 115 min. 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 3, 2000, 6:20 PM CST (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS SDF
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Breckinridge County, KY, Meade County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 517 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 723 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 040020 FFWSDF KYC027-163-040215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 717 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 815 PM CST (915 PM EST) * AT 715 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS OVER BRECKINRIDGE AND MEADE COUNTIES... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DUMP TORRENTIAL RAIN ACROSS MEADE AND BRECKINRIDGE COUNTIES. NEW RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES IN ONE HOUR IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS HEAVY RAIN COULD VERY WELL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! .END/STUREY/FUNK
1 follow-up statement
000 TTAA00 KSDF 040020 FFWSDF KYC027-163-040215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 717 PM EST (617 PM CST) MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 815 PM CST (915 PM EST) * AT 715 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS OVER BRECKINRIDGE AND MEADE COUNTIES... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DUMP TORRENTIAL RAIN ACROSS MEADE AND BRECKINRIDGE COUNTIES. NEW RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES IN ONE HOUR IS POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS HEAVY RAIN COULD VERY WELL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! .END/STUREY/FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS SDF issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 6:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Jefferson, Oldham | 2 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:04 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Bullitt, Hardin | 116 min |
| Jan 3, 8:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Shelby, Spencer | 106 min |
| Jan 3, 8:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SDF | Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Oldham | 2 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.