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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 20, 2002, 8:01 AM CST for Edmonson County, Hart County, Kentucky. It was in force for 104 min. 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, 8:01 AM CST (14:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2002, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 104 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Edmonson County, KY, Hart County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 201401 FFWSDF KYC061-099-201545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 756 AM CST WED MAR 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HART COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 945 AM CST * AT 755 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE RAIN WAS FALLING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER THE LAST THREE HOURS RANGING ONE HALF TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS HAVE AVERAGED ALMOST THREE INCHES. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BROWNSVILLE AND MUNFORDVILLE 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 3725 8640 3710 8619 3729 8576 3741 8594 $$ VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 5:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 5:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas, Scott | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 9:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 9:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 9:55 AM CST | 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.