Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 20, 2002, 10:55 AM EST for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 80 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
- Mar 20, 2002, 10:55 AM EST (15:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2002, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Garrard County, KY, Larue County, KY, Madison County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Nicholas County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 201555 FFWSDF KYC079-123-151-167-181-201715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1052 AM EST WED MAR 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS CONTINUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GARRARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY MADISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY MERCER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY NICHOLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY LARUE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1215 PM EST * HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER...LOCAL OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT A FEW ROADS WERE STILL CLOSED IN THESE COUNTIES...AND THUS THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE CONTINUED TO ALLOW THE HIGH WATER TO SLOWLY RECEDE. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CARLISLE...HARRODSBURG... HODGENVILLE...LANCASTER AND RICHMOND OFFICIALS FROM NICHOLAS COUNTY REPORTED 2 ROADS WERE CLOSED AT THIS TIME. ONE ROAD WAS CLOSED IN MADISON COUNTY WITH NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WATER OVER ROADWAYS. A COUPLE OF ROADS WERE STILL CLOSED IN GARRARD COUNTY AND A COUPLE OF MUD SLIDES WERE REPORTED. A FEW ROADS WERE ALSO STILL CLOSED IN LARUE COUNTY. 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. $$ VLD
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, 7:39 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas, Scott | 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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.