Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY

March 17, 2002Clinton County, Cumberland County, Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 17, 2002, 8:06 PM CST for Clinton County, Cumberland County, Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 17, 2002, 8:06 PM CST (02:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 17, 2002, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Monroe County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 180206
FFWSDF
KYC053-057-171-180500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
805 PM CST SUN MAR 17 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CLINTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SOUTHERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 1100 PM CST

* AT 754 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING OF ROADS OVER
  SOUTHERN CLINTON COUNTY OR  69 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN.

* HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING ALONG AND NORTH OF THE TENNESSEE BORDER
  ACROSS MONROE...CUMBERLAND AND CLINTON COUNTIES. MORE HEAVY RAIN 
  WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ALBANY...BURKESVILLE AND
  TOMPKINSVILLE

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 3681 8585 3663 8596 3663 8500 3685 8507

$$

SCHOLZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 10:54 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clinton	3 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.