Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2001, 8:24 AM EDT for Harrison County, Scott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2001, 8:24 AM EDT (12:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2001, 9:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Harrison County, KY, Scott County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:26 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 881 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLMK 221225 FFWLMK KYC097-209-221330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 824 AM EDT SUN JUL 22 2001 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 930 AM EDT * AT 819 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SADIEVILLE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON... MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE OXFORD...LEESBURG... GEORGETOWN...DAVIS...CYNTHIANA...CONNERSVILLE...BRECKINRIDGE AND BERRY DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. LAT...LON 3855 8438 3848 8471 3816 8463 3836 8424 JA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 1:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 9:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 10:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 83 min |
| Jul 22, 6:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 65 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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.