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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Louisville, KY

March 31, 20024 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 31, 2002, 5:21 AM CST for 4 counties in 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 31, 2002, 5:21 AM CST (11:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2002, 9:15 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Adair County, KY, Barren County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Warren County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 2002-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
733 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 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 311121
FFWSDF
KYC001-009-169-227-311515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
517 AM CST SUN MAR 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ADAIR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  METCALFE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN

* UNTIL 915 AM CST

* AT 514 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN FROM MONTPELIER TO WOODBURN...OR FROM 33 MILES WEST OF        
  SOMERSET TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF BOWLING GREEN. ALMOST 2 INCHES OF     
  RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST THREE HOURS AND AN ADDITIONAL
  INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING. 

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSESS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
LOUISVILLE.

$$

JA

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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.