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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Louisville, KY

June 16, 2003Jefferson County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2003, 12:38 PM EST for Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 22 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2003, 12:38 PM EST (17:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2003, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jefferson County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 161742 CCA
FFWLMK
INC077-161900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION TIME
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1238 PM EST MON JUN 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 200 PM EST

* AT 1235 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER DEPUTY...OR ABOUT 42 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE. MOVEMENT
  WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

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 3882 8573 3868 8561 3892 8533 3897 8552

$$

JB

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KLMK 161824
FFSLMK
INC077-161900-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
123 PM EST MON JUN 16 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS DID NOT REPORT ANY FLOODING PROBLEMS IN 
THE DEPUTY AREA OF NORTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS HAVE 
SINCE ENDED IN THE VICINITY THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS 
BEEN CANCELLED. 

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

$$

JB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 12:38 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.