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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Louisville, KY

June 25, 2002Bourbon County, Harrison County, Scott County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2002, 7:06 PM EDT for Bourbon County, Harrison County, Scott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 114 min. 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 25, 2002, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bourbon County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Scott County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 2002-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 921 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2002-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 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 252306
FFWSDF
KYC017-097-209-260100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BOURBON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  HARRISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 702 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED BETWEEN 3 
AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER WESTERN BOURBON COUNTY SINCE 
6 PM EDT. LITTLE MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WERE NOTED. 

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CYNTHIANA...GEORGETOWN AND
  PARIS

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

$$

JA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 6:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKLogan115 min

Nearby

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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.