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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Louisville, KY

August 22, 2003Franklin County, Scott County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT for Franklin County, Scott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 75 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 22, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 75 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Franklin County, KY, Scott County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 2888 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 11.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 221949
FFWLMK
KYC073-209-222100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
345 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 343 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN FROM SADIEVILLE TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORKS OF ELKHORN...OR
  FROM 21 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON TO 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  LEXINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FRANKFORT...GEORGETOWN... 
SWALLOWFIELD...STAMPING GROUND

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF 
RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN FROM 245 TO 345 PM OVER FAR NORTHERN FRANKLIN 
COUNTY...AND 2 TO 3 INCHES IN NORTHERN SCOTT COUNTY. ADDITIONAL 
HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY THROUGH 5 PM EDT...WHICH COULD CAUSE FLASH 
FLOODING.

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 3848 8456 3836 8497 3816 8501 3821 8443
          3836 8447

$$
FUNK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	46 min
Aug 22, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	38 min
Aug 22, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	38 min
Aug 22, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	35 min
Aug 22, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Meade	46 min
Aug 22, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue, Nelson	41 min
Aug 22, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Washington	39 min
Aug 22, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	38 min
Aug 22, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	15 min
Aug 22, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	37 min
Aug 22, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	20 min
Aug 22, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	41 min
Aug 22, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	43 min
Aug 22, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin	32 min
Aug 22, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	45 min
Aug 22, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	42 min
Aug 22, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	40 min
Aug 22, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	40 min
Aug 22, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	30 min
Aug 22, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan	56 min
Aug 22, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	34 min
Aug 22, 6:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Edmonson	18 min
Aug 22, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Warren	23 min
Aug 22, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton	32 min
Aug 22, 7:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Barren	29 min
Aug 22, 7:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Warren	28 min
Aug 22, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	36 min
Aug 22, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	27 min
Aug 22, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	40 min
Aug 22, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	38 min
Aug 22, 7:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Ohio	96 min
Aug 22, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	43 min
Aug 22, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	27 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.