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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Louisville, KY

May 12, 2002Crawford County, Dubois County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2002, 10:31 PM EST for Crawford County, Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 89 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: May 12, 2002, 10:31 PM EST (03:31 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2002, 12:00 AM EST
In force: 89 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 263 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 130338
FFWSDF
INC025-037-130600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1031 PM EST SUN MAY 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 AM EST

* AT 1027 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE
  AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER DUBOIS AND CRAWFORD 
  COUNTIES. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
  ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL RAIN 
  WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. 

* CENTRAL DISPATCH REPORTS WATER OVER SEVERAL ROADS IN DUBOIS AND
  CRAWFORD COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL AGGREVATE THE FLOODING. 

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ENGLISH AND JASPER.

BE VERY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT AND WATCH OUT FOR FLOODED ROADS AND LOW 
LYING AREAS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROAD IN A VEHICLE OR BY 
FOOT. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY IF WATER THREATENS.

$$
FUNK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 7:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	36 min
May 12, 10:38 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois	2 hr
May 12, 11:00 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison, Perry	3 hr
May 13, 2:33 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison	3 hr
May 13, 3:00 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois	2 hr
May 13, 3:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois	3 hr

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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.