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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Louisville, KY

August 11, 2003Butler County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2003, 2:36 PM CDT for Butler County, Kentucky. It was in force for 84 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
Aug 11, 2003, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Butler County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2003-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 414 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2003-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 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 111937
FFWLMK
KYC031-112100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
236 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 233 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER WELCHS CREEK...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN. 
  THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL OF 3 TO 4 INCHES HAS OCCURRED SINCE 130 PM 
IN NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM 
WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS... 
UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING AREAS.

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 3734 8667 3720 8650 3733 8646 3739 8661

$$

JB
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS73 KLMK 112014
FFSLMK
KYC031-112100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
313 PM CDT MON AUG 11 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR 
NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED...

THE HEAVY RAINFALL OF 3 TO 4 INCHES THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD 
WARNING HAS SINCE DIMINISHED SIGNIFICANTLY IN INTENSITY. THEREFORE 
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING 
HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 9:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKClinton, Russell119 min
Aug 11, 2:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge, Meade25 min
Aug 11, 3:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKGrayson113 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2003Every 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.