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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Louisville, KY

June 25, 2002Logan County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2002, 5:50 PM CDT for Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 115 min. 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 25, 2002, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Logan County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 135 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 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 252250
FFWSDF
KYC141-260045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
549 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 547 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FROM 3 TO 
4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTY SINCE 
5:00 PM CDT. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

LAT...LON 3705 8704 3685 8706 3685 8672 3698 8669

$$

JA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 6:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBourbon, Harrison, Scott114 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.