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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY

June 20, 2001Hancock County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2001, 11:01 AM CDT for Hancock County, Kentucky. It was in force for 119 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 20, 2001, 11:01 AM CDT (16:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2001, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Hancock County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1382 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 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 201605
FFWLMK
KYC091-201800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1101 AM CDT WED JUN 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT

* AT 1100 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BATCH
OF VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST WEST OF HANCOCK COUNTY OR ABOUT 60 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN. THIS BATCH OF RAIN WAS MOVING SLOWLY
NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF
RAIN DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AS IT PASSES OVER HANCOCK
COUNTY.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PATESVILLE...HAWESVILLE AND
  DUKES

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.

COX

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 Jun 20, 2:39 AM CDT, 8 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:39 AM CDT, 8 hours 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
340 AM EDT WED JUNE 20 2001

MODELS IN AGREEMENT.

WAVY FRONT OVER IN AND IL WL MOVE SE THRU RGN LATE TODAY AND TNGT.
MN RH FIELDS KIND OF LACKING OVER CWA WITH PROGRESSION OF FRONT BUT
LI/S SHOULD GENERATE THUNDER.

LVX 88D THAT WAS DETECTING LOTS OF TSTMS NR MIDNIGHT SHOWS THAT MOST
ACTIVITY HAS WEAKENED AS EXPECTED DURING THE WEE HOURS.

XPCT ANOTHER WARM DAY WITH MAV AND NGM MOS VALUES EXPECTED TO BE
CLOSE TO REAL READINGS...ALTHO A BIT COOLER THAN TUESDAY DUE TO MORE
CLD CVR. MAX TEMPS THURS TRICKY AND WL DEPEND ON FNTL POSN AND CLD
CVR. AT THIS TIME...FEEL FWC HIGHS FOR THURS RUNNING A LTL TOO HIGH
AND HAVE ADJUSTED DOWNWARD.

.SDF...NONE.
CONGER

Nearby

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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.