Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Louisville, KY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 9:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clinton, Russell | 119 min |
| Aug 11, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 25 min |
| Aug 11, 3:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson | 113 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.