Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Louisville, KY

Issued

Aug 11, 2003, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)

Expired

Aug 11, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT

In force

113 min

Issued by

NWS Louisville, KY

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Grayson County, KY

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000 
WGUS53 KLMK 112038
FFWLMK
KYC085-112230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GRAYSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

AT 330 PM CDT, LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED WATER FLOWING OVER HIGHWAY 
259 AT THE BEAR CREEK BRIDGE, SOUTH OF LEITCHFIELD. RADAR HAS 
ESTIMATED THAT FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SO FAR THIS 
AFTERNOON, PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA FROM SNAP, OVER TO NEAR 
LEITCHFIELD, TO CANEYVILLE. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE 
SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL.

THIS REPLACES THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EARLIER 
ISSUED FOR GRAYSON 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 3754 8666 3740 8660 3734 8612 3754 8612

$$

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000 
WGUS73 KLMK 112158
FFSLMK
KYC085-112230-

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

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR GRAYSON
COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

AT 450 PM CDT, WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT MUCH OF THE 
INTENSE RAINFALL HAD DISSIPATED OR EXITED GRAYSON COUNTY. LIGHT TO 
OCCASIONALLY MODERATE RAINS WILL CONTINUE HOWEVER THROUGH 530 PM. 
RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT FOR 
FLASH FLOODING. TOTAL PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS RANGE FROM 1.5 TO 3 
INCHES ACROSS THE COUNTY, WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS FROM CANEYVILLE, 
TO LEITCHFIELD, TO MILLERSTOWN.

LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED A COUPLE ADDITIONAL SPOTS OF FLOODING, 
INCLUDING MAIN STREET IN DOWNTOWN LEITCHFIELD, AND ALONG HIGHWAY 224 
IN EASTERN GRAYSON 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.

$$

SMALLCOMB

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

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.