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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 20, 2002, 7:39 AM EST for Harrison County, Nicholas County, Scott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2002, 7:39 AM EST (12:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2002, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harrison County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Scott County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLMK 201239 FFWSDF KYC097-181-209-201545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 738 AM EST WED MAR 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HARRISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY NICHOLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1045 AM EST * AT 735 AM EST...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF HARRISON... NICHOLAS AND SCOTT COUNTY. ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN THIS MORNING WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING...AS THE GROUND REMAINS TOTALLY SATURATED. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CYNTHIANA 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. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. LAT...LON 3817 8481 3834 8424 3834 8386 3859 8432 $$ STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 3:18 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:04 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 6:26 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:27 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:41 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 9:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Hart | 104 min |
| Mar 20, 10:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 10:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 10:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard, Larue, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas | 80 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.