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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Louisville, KY

July 26, 2001Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2001, 2:40 AM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 80 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: Jul 26, 2001, 2:40 AM CDT (07:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2001, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 80 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Ohio County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 260741
FFWLMK
KYC183-260900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
240 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  OHIO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT

* AT 236 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OCCURRING OVER MOST OF OHIO COUNTY WITH MORE RAIN MOVING IN.
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF THREE QUARTERS INCH TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES
  WILL FALL OVER MUCH OF OHIO COUNTY THROUGH 4 AM CDT.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ROSINE...ROCKPORT...
  PRENTISS...OLATON...MCHENRY...HARTFORD...FORDSVILLE...DUNDEE...
  DEANEFIELD...CROMWELL...COOL SPRINGS...BEDA...AND BEAVERDAM.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS...IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO JUDGE THE ACTUAL DEPTH OF THE
WATER. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

SCHOLZ

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 26, 2:27 AM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:27 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
320 AM PM EDT THU JUL 26 2001

WE WILL ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF OUR FORECAST AREA TO
THE SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER FOR TODAY.

ONGOING AND DEVELOPING R/R+...PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AOA 2.00 ...
FRNTL BNDRY NR THE OH RIVER...DRFTNG SLOWLY SWRD...PLUS
ON FAVORABLE SRN EDGE OF WLY'S... ALL POINT TO POSSIBLE FLASH FLOOD
PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...ESPECIALLY TO S OF OHIO RIVER.

REMAINDER OF FCST WILL FOLLOW PREVIOUS FCST TRENDS...BUT WILL REMOVE
MTN OF PCPN ACROSS ALL BUT SRN THIRD OF FA FOR TONIGHT AND FRI.

MOS TEMPS MORE OR LESS IN LINE WI PREVIOUS FCST TRENDS...MOS POPS OK AFTER
TODAY....BUT WILL RAISE POPS ABV MOS TODAY.
 DEVELOPMENT.

.SDF...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR ALL OF FA TO S OF OHIO RIVER.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 26, 12:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
118 AM EDT THU JUL 26 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1020 PM    PARIS                     KY   FLOOD
07/25/01   BOURBON                        FEMALE TRAPPED IN CAR
                                          IN FLASH FLOOD ON
                                          REDMON RD. OFF US68
                                          BETWEEN PARIS AND
                                          MILLERSBURG. REPORTED
                                          BY FIRE AND RESCUE.

1230 AM    TURKEY FOOT               KY   FLOOD
07/26/01   SCOTT                          SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED
                                          IN TURKEYFOOT. REPORTED
                                          BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

1235 AM    PARIS                     KY   FLOOD
07/26/01   BOURBON                        FLOODING ON SEVERAL
                                          STATE ROADS. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
                                          OFFICIAL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 7:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	87 min
Jul 25, 9:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	117 min
Jul 25, 10:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Scott	2 hr
Jul 25, 11:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon	75 min
Jul 26, 12:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	96 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.