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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Louisville, KY

July 28, 2001Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2001, 5:49 PM EDT for Madison 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2001, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Madison County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 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 282154
FFWSDF

KYC151-290015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
549 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 545 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY       
  HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS MADISON COUNTY...OR ABOUT  
  20 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PARTS OF      
  HIGHWAY 52 NEAR RICHMOND WERE COVERED WITH WATER OF 1 TO 2 FEET    
  IN DEPTH.  

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WACO...RICHMOND...          
  REDHOUSE...KINGSTON...BYBEE AND BEREA.

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSESS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

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 3783 8444 3756 8439 3758 8412 3784 8411

KIRKPATRICK

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 28, 1:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 1:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
100 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2001

WE WILL ISSUE FFA FOR ENTIRE FA TNGT. WIL MAKE THIS BRIEF...MAY NEED
FFW IN THE NEAR TERM OVER PARTS OF CURRENT FFA.

PCPT WATER IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES HAS OVERSPRD FA IN WAKE OF WARM FNT
FROM CVG TO JKL. WITH HEATING/INCRSG CAPES AND APPROACH OF UPR LVL
IMPLSE...SHWRS AND STORMS HAVE BLOSSOMED ATTM...MOST IN A 2000 J/KG
CAPE AXIS FROM SWRN FA TO NEAR SDF.

DIURNAL ACTIVITY SHUD DIMINISH A BIT TNGT BEFORE UPR MSP VLY SHRT WV
REACHES LWR OH VLY AND INCREASES ACTIVTY AGAIN. INCRSG LLJ/WAA IN
ADVANCE OF SFC LO COMBINED WITH FAVORABLE MID/HI LVL DYNAMICS
(DIVERGENCE) ON SRN EDGE OF WLYS SHUD PRODUCE AREAS OF EXCESSIVE
RAINFALL(PRIMARILY OVER NRN/ERN FA).

CORRIDOR OF DEEP MOIST TO SLOLY SLIP THRU RGN ON SUNDAY. WILL CONT
TO MENTION HIGHEST POPS EAST AND SOUTH.

HAVE STAYED CLOSE TO GUIDE TEMPS THIS FCST CYCLE WITH CLDS AND PCPN
DOMINANT.

COORDNTD WITH PAH...IND...RFC.  JKL AND ILN FFA IN AFFECT TO OUR NE
AND E.

.SDF...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ALL OF CENTRAL KY AND SOUTH CENTRAL
       INDIANA.

KIRKPATRICK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 5:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	118 min
Jul 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clinton	2 hr
Jul 28, 7:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Scott	2 hr

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.