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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS SDF

January 3, 2000Breckinridge County, Meade County, Kentucky

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 517 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 6:29 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSDFJefferson, Oldham2 hr
Jan 3, 7:04 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSDFBullitt, Hardin116 min
Jan 3, 8:14 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSDFShelby, Spencer106 min
Jan 3, 8:33 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSDFBullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Oldham2 hr

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.