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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY

June 4, 2001Adair County, Casey County, Russell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2001, 7:25 AM CDT for Adair County, Casey County, Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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: Jun 4, 2001, 7:25 AM CDT (12:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2001, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Adair County, KY, Casey County, KY, Russell County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 041226
FFWLMK
KYC001-045-207-041430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
725 AM CDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ADAIR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SOUTHERN CASEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  NORTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 930 AM CDT(1030 AM EDT)

* AT 720 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS ADAIR COUNTY...
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF OVER AN INCH IS
  POSSIBLE ACROSS AREAS WHERE 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY
  FALLEN THIS MORNING.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WINDSOR...VESTER...
  SALEM...RUSSELL SPRINGS...RHEBER...PHIL...PELLYTON...
  MONTPELIER...MIDDLEBURG...KNIFELY...GLENS FORK...ELLA...
  DUNNVILLE...COBURG...CANE VALLEY...BETHELRIDGE AND ARGYLE

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.

LAT...LONf 3718 8538 3695 8546 3702 8487 3726 8473
          3739 8476

CS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 6:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	2 hr
Jun 4, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	47 min
Jun 4, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	24 min
Jun 4, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	26 min
Jun 4, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	32 min
Jun 4, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	29 min
Jun 4, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	16 min
Jun 4, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	41 min
Jun 4, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	25 min
Jun 4, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	37 min
Jun 4, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Edmonson	22 min
Jun 4, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	40 min
Jun 4, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 4, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	9 min
Jun 4, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	29 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2001 Every 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.