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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Louisville, KY

November 10, 2002Dubois County, Orange County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 10, 2002, 4:32 PM EST for Dubois County, Orange County, Indiana. It was in force for 118 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: Nov 10, 2002, 4:32 PM EST (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 118 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dubois County, IN, Orange County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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 102132
FFWSDF
INC037-117-102330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
431 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 630 PM EST

* AT 426 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING INTENSE RAINFALL OVER PARTS OF DUBOIS AND 
ORANGE COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. AMATUER RADIO REPORTS INDICATE 
THAT PARTS OF I-64 NEAR HUNTINGBURG ARE UNDERWATER AND IMPASSIBLE. 
DO NOT DRIVE IN FLOODED AREAS.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE JASPER AND PAOLI

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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 1:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	29 min
Nov 10, 4:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	36 min
Nov 10, 4:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	48 min
Nov 10, 4:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange	37 min
Nov 10, 4:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	50 min
Nov 10, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	47 min
Nov 10, 5:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	42 min
Nov 10, 5:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Washington	22 min
Nov 10, 5:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	37 min
Nov 10, 5:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Scott	37 min
Nov 10, 5:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	27 min
Nov 10, 5:36 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	29 min
Nov 10, 6:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.