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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Louisville, KY

March 26, 2002Breckinridge County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 26, 2002, 1:14 AM CST for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 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 26, 2002, 1:14 AM CST (07:14 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2002, 5:30 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Breckinridge County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 260714
FFWSDF
KYC027-261130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
108 AM CST TUE MAR 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 530 AM CST

* NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW BANDS OF 
HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER PARTS OF 
BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY. RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT FROM TWO...TO TWO AND 
A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 500 PM MONDAY EVENING OVER 
THE SOUTHERN HALF OF BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY. THE ZONE OF HEAVIEST RAIN 
IS GENERALLY FROM ROUGH RIVER LAKE...TO JUST SOUTH OF 
HARDINSBURG...TO BIG SPRING. ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM 
ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH 
PER HOUR...INCREASING THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING OVER THE ENTIRE 
COUNTY.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HARDINSBURG...ROUGH RIVER 
LAKE...GLEN DEAN...FALLS OF THE ROUGH...GARFIELD...BIG SPRING...AND 
CLOVERPORT. 

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 11:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Ohio	5 hr
Mar 26, 2:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Grayson	5 hr
Mar 26, 2:34 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Hardin	4 hr

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.