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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Louisville, KY

June 2, 2002Madison County, Kentucky

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.

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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, 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.

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°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.

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.

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, 5:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKJessamine, Woodford3 hr
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

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.