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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 19, 2002, 4:00 PM EST for Clark County, Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana; 7 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 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
- Dec 19, 2002, 4:00 PM EST (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2002, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Meade County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Trimble County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 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 192100
FFWSDF
INC019-043-061-KYC027-091-103-111-163-185-223-200300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
355 PM EST THU DEC 19 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE
MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
OLDHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
TRIMBLE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
* UNTIL 1000 PM EST(900 PM CST)
* AT 352 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING ALONG THE OHIO RIVER WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN
MOVING INTO THE WARNED AREA.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CORYDON...JEFFERSONVILLE...
NEW ALBANY...ANCHORAGE...BEDFORD...BRANDENBURG...FERN CREEK...
HARDINSBURG...HAWESVILLE...JEFFERSONTOWN...LA GRANGE...
NEW CASTLE...PROSPECT...SHIVELY...AND ST. MATTHEWS
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSESS AND LOW LYING AREAS.
SOME CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS ARE ALREADY OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
LOUISVILLE.
$$
SCHOLZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 3:03 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Ohio | 117 min |
| Dec 19, 4:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Ohio | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 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.