Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2002, 11:18 PM EDT for Casey 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2002, 11:18 PM EDT (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Casey County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1885 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 050318 FFWSDF KYC045-050630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1116 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CASEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 230 AM EDT * AT 1106 PM, WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF INTENSE RAINFALL MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF CASEY COUNTY, WITH RAINFALL RATES APPROACHING 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. THE AXIS OF THE HEAVIEST RAINS IS FROM NORTH OF RHEBER, TO NEAR LIBERTY, TO YOSEMITE, SO THIS AREA HAS THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. DUE TO THE VERY INTENSE NATURE OF THIS RAINFALL, FLASH FLOODING COULD OCCUR VERY QUICKLY AND ROADS MAY BECOME IMPASSABLE, ESPECIALLY IN THE LIBERTY AREA. 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. $$ SMALLCOMB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 21 min |
| Jun 5, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 14 min |
| Jun 5, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 19 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.