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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Louisville, KY

July 16, 2003Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2003, 2:06 AM EDT for Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 114 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: Jul 16, 2003, 2:06 AM EDT (06:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2003, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 1565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 14.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 160612
FFWLMK
KYC151-160800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
206 AM EDT WED JUL 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 400 AM EDT

* AT 202 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY 
HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER MOST OF THE COUNTY OVER THE PAST 
HOUR...ESPECIALLY NORTH AND EAST OF RICHMOND. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 
AROUND 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED IN NORTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY BEFORE 
THE RAIN TAPERS OFF BEFORE 3 AM EDT. 

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. 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.

LAT...LON 3783 8440 3770 8446 3754 8427 3778 8410
          3786 8423

$$

DENMAN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KLMK 160752
FFSLMK
KYC151-160830-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
345 AM EDT WED JUL 16 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 AM EDT FOR
MADISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

RADAR INDICATES THAT RAIN HAS MOVED SOUTHEAST OF MADISON COUNTY. THE 
HIGHEST RAINFALL TOTALS ESTIMATED BY RADAR OCCURRED OVER THE EASTERN 
AND EXTREME NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY...WHERE 2 TO 3 INCHES 
WERE INDICATED.

ALTHOUGH RAIN HAS ENDED...SOME SMALL STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN 
NEAR BANKFULL. LOW WATER CROSSINGS MAY STILL HAVE WATER FLOWING OVER 
THE ROAD. MOTORISTS AT NIGHT SHOULD DRIVE ESPECIALLY 
CAUTIOUSLY...AND NOT CROSS ANY PASSAGE WHERE WATER CROSSES THE ROAD.

$$
JSD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	60 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.