Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2002, 7:23 PM EDT for Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2002, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLMK 022323 FFWSDF KYC151-030130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 720 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 715 PM EDT...TORRENTIAL RAIN CONTINUES OVER PARTS OF MADISON COUNTY IN EAST-CENTRAL KENTUCKY. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF 6 INCHES HAS FALLEN GENERALLY SOUTH OF VALLEY VIEW... TO RICHMOND...TO BYBEE LINE. ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED OVER MADISON COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM EDT. THESE RAINFALL TOTALS...IF THEY VERIFY...WILL LIKELY LEAD TO SERIOUS OR ONGOING FLASH FLOODING. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE RICHMOND 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. LAT...LON 3784 8409 3756 8414 3756 8435 3783 8452 STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Madison | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 4:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Oldham | 119 min |
| Jun 2, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 5:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Shelby | 81 min |
| Jun 2, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jessamine, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard, Mercer | 42 min |
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.