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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Louisville, KY

March 25, 2002Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 25, 2002, 11:29 PM CST for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 5 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 25, 2002, 11:29 PM CST (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2002, 4:00 AM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Ohio County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2002-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2002-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1592 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 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 260529
FFWSDF
KYC183-261000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1128 PM CST MON MAR 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 AM CST

* AT 1119 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE 
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER OHIO COUNTY. 
SINCE 5:00 PM...RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO TWO INCHES HAVE FALLEN 
PARTICULARLY OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF OHIO COUNTY. ANOTHER CLUSTER 
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE IN FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY 
THROUGH 1:00 AM CST...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM ONE TO 
ONE AND A HALF INCHES LIKELY.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HARTFORD...BEAVER 
DAM...ROCKPORT...FORDSVILLE...AND DUNDEE.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS...IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO JUDGE THE ACTUAL DEPTH OF THE
WATER. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

$$

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 1:14 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge4 hr
Mar 26, 2:00 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLMKGrayson5 hr
Mar 26, 2:34 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningLMKHardin4 hr

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.