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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Louisville, KY

December 19, 2002Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 19, 2002, 3:58 PM CST for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Dec 19, 2002, 3:58 PM CST (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Dec 19, 2002, 9:00 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ohio County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 2002-12-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-12-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 351 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
351 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
432 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 192158
FFWSDF
KYC183-200300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
354 PM CST THU DEC 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS EXTENDED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  OHIO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 350 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS 
MOVED EAST OF OHIO COUNTY...HOWEVER LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR 
ANOTHER ONE OR TWO HOURS WITH ANOTHER ONE QUARTER TO HALF INCH 
POSSIBLE. LOCAL DISPATCH REPORTED SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS WERE CLOSED 
AT THIS TIME DUE TO THE HIGH WATER. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THREE TO 
FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS OHIO COUNTY SINCE THIS MORNING.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HARTFORD

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.

REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3742 8706 3730 8691 3756 8664 3770 8675

$$

VLD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 19, 2:03 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLMKOhio117 min
Dec 19, 3:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge, Hancock, Henry, Jefferson, Meade, Oldham and 1 more6 hr

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.