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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Louisville, KY

June 2, 2002Jessamine County, Woodford County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2002, 5:53 PM EDT for Jessamine County, Woodford 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
Jun 2, 2002, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jessamine County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2002-06-02Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2002-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
283 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.

488 
WGUS53 KLMK 022153
FFWSDF
KYC113-239-030100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
550 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JESSAMINE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 550 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINS 
TRAINING THROUGH JESSAMINE AND SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTIES. MORE 
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE IN FROM THE NORTHWEST EARLY THIS EVENING. 
THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES FROM 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES PER 
HOUR. AN AREA FROM EXTREME SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTY, TO KEENE, TO 
NEAR NICHOLASVILLE HAS ALREADY SEEN 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN SO FAR 
THIS AFTERNOON...THUS THIS IS THE CORRIDOR THAT HAS THE HIGHEST 
THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING.

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

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...
OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

LAT...LON 3788 8479 3787 8470 3777 8461 3779 8452
          3787 8446 3792 8449 3800 8467 3804 8483

$$

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 3:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKMadison4 hr
Jun 2, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMadison40 min
Jun 2, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOldham48 min
Jun 2, 4:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKOldham119 min
Jun 2, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOldham62 min
Jun 2, 5:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKShelby81 min
Jun 2, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKShelby47 min
Jun 2, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJessamine51 min
Jun 2, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle, Garrard, Mercer42 min
Jun 2, 7:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKMadison2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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.