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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Louisville, KY

May 7, 2002Garrard County, Lincoln County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 2002, 3:18 PM EDT for Garrard County, Lincoln 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: May 7, 2002, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Garrard County, KY, Lincoln County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 1037 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 071918
FFWSDF
KYC079-137-072215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
316 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GARRARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 315 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN FROM MCCREARY TO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORELAND...OR FROM 24
  MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON TO 38 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LANCASTER AND STANFORD

AREAS AROUND LINCOLN AND GARRARD COUNTIES HAVE ALREADY SEEN 1 TO 2 
INCHES OF RAIN TODAY WHICH HAS SATURATED THE GROUND...AND ANOTHER 1 
TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY AS THIS LINE OF SLOW MOVING 
THUNDERSTORMS MOVES THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

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.

LAT...LON 3780 8469 3770 8471 3763 8465 3754 8484
          3745 8486 3732 8468 3739 8455 3747 8449
          3757 8439 3770 8453

$$

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Nelson	50 min
May 6, 9:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Lincoln	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.