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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Louisville, KY

April 14, 2002Dubois County, Orange County, Washington County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 2002, 5:32 AM EST for Dubois County, Orange County, Washington County, Indiana. 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: Apr 14, 2002, 5:32 AM EST (10:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2002, 9:30 AM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dubois County, IN, Orange County, IN, Washington County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 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 141032
FFWSDF
INC037-117-175-141430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
530 AM EST SUN APR 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 930 AM EST

* AT 525 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY       
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF DUBOIS...ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES
  IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT AN INCH OF NEW  
  RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN SINCE 330 AM EST. ANOTHER ONE TO TWO       
  INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH MID MORNING. THIS HEAVY         
  RAIN...FALLING ON TOP OF SATURATED SOIL...WILL QUICKLY RUNOFF AND  
  LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING.   

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.

$$
STUREY/JMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 5:30 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange, Washington	3 hr
Apr 14, 9:30 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	60 min
Apr 14, 9:34 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	116 min

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.