Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 20, 2002, 2:18 AM CST for Butler County, Grayson 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
- Mar 20, 2002, 2:18 AM CST (08:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2002, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KY, Grayson County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 200818 FFWSDF KYC031-085-201115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 215 AM CST WED MAR 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY GRAYSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 515 AM CST * AT 211 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MORGANTOWN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN. HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING SINCE AROUND MIDNIGHT OVER PARTS OF BUTLER AND GRAYSON COUNTIES...AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH 5 AM CST. ANOTHER INCH OR TWO OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED BY 5 AM CST. THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN...FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND...WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LEITCHFIELD AND MORGANTOWN. 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. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. $$ STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 5:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 5:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas, Scott | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:01 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Hart | 104 min |
| Mar 20, 9:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 9:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 9:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard, Larue, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas | 80 min |
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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.