Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 20, 2002, 9:07 AM CST for Green County, Taylor 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2002, 9:07 AM CST (15:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2002, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Green County, KY, Taylor County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 201507 FFWSDF KYC087-217-201715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1000 AM CST WED MAR 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE IS CONTINUING A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY TAYLOR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1215 PM EST (1115 AM CST) * HEAVY RAINS WILL END SHORTLY ACROSS TAYLER AND GREEN COUNTIES. HOWEVER...SEVERAL ROADS REMAIN IMPASSABLE FROM HEAVY RAIN THAT FELL OVERNIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GREENSBURG AND CAMPBELLSVILLE. LOCAL OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT NUMEROUS LOW LYING AREAS REMAINED UNDER WATER AT THIS TIME ACROSS BOTH THESE COUNTIES...AND A FEW ROADS WERE CLOSED. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSESS AND LOW LYING AREAS. $$ DENMAN
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, 8:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Hart | 104 min |
| 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.