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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 12, 2002, 9:31 PM EST for Crawford County, Dubois County, Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2002, 9:31 PM EST (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2002, 11:30 PM EST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Perry County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 130231 FFWSDF INC025-037-123-130430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 930 PM EST FRI APR 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SOUTHEASTERN DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA NORTHWESTERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 1130 PM EST * AT 927 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR MENTOR...OR ABOUT 53 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ENGLISH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSESS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THIS STORM CAUSED FLOODING OF STREETS IN FERDINAND. 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. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. LAT...LON 3838 8688 3819 8684 3821 8642 3840 8643 $$ SCHOLZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 9:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Perry | 60 min |
| Apr 12, 11:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 25 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.