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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Louisville, KY

June 6, 2001Crawford County, Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2001, 5:00 PM EST for Crawford County, Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 90 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
Jun 6, 2001, 5:00 PM EST (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2001, 6:30 PM EST
In force
90 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, IN, Harrison County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 237 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 500 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
500 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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 062204
FFWSDF
INC025-061-062330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
600 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT(630 PM EST)

* AT 455 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY       
  HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHEAST CRAWFORD COUNTY INDIANA AND NORTHERN     
  HARRISON COUNTY INDIANA. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT
  BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE MID
  AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL RAIN OF ONE OR TWO INCHES THROUGH 600 PM
  EST WILL START FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE REGION. 
 
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 SAHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO 
HIGHER GROUND.

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

STUREY/COX

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington32 min
Jun 6, 4:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison32 min
Jun 6, 4:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark32 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 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.