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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2003, 7:11 PM EDT for Bourbon County, Nicholas County, Kentucky. It was in force for 94 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 31, 2003, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2003, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bourbon County, KY, Nicholas County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 312312 FFWLMK KYC017-181-010045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 711 PM EDT SUN AUG 31 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOURBON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY NICHOLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 706 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER PARIS...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CARLISLE RAINFALL SINCE 600 PM EDT ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN BOURBON COUNTY HAS BEEN ABOUT 2 INCHES. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 845 PM WITH 2 TO 3 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL LIKELY. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING AREAS. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. LAT...LON 3822 8446 3808 8425 3832 8387 3842 8406 $$ JB
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KLMK 312344 FFSLMK KYC017-181-010100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 744 PM EDT SUN AUG 31 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR NICHOLAS AND BOURBON COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... RAINFALL SINCE 630 PM EDT HAS BEEN AROUND 3 INCHES IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN BOURBON COUNTY...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THERE WILL BE AROUND 1 INCH THROUGH 845 PM. IN NICHOLAS COUNTY RAINFALL HAS BEEN AROUND 1 INCH. ANOTHER BATCH OF HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE INTO NICHOLAS COUNTY FROM BOURBON COUNTY...AND THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DROP ANOTHER 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN NICHOLAS COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS...UNDERPASSES AND LOW LYING AREAS. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. $$ JB
000 WGUS73 KLMK 010049 FFSLMK KYC017-181-010100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 848 PM EDT SUN AUG 31 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR NICHOLAS AND BOURBON COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN BOURBON AND NICHOLAS COUNTIES HAVE NOT REPORTED ANY FLOODING PROBLEMS AS A RESULT OF THE HEAVY RAINS THAT FELL OVER THE LAST 2 HOURS. HOWEVER THERE STILL COULD BE SOME FLOODED SPOTS AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN BOURBON COUNTY WHERE OVER 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS ESTIMATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...SPECIFICALLY IN THE LOCAL BASINS OF KENNEDY...STONER AND BRUSH CREEKS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS IN OR NEAR THOSE LOCATIONS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS...IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO JUDGE THE ACTUAL DEPTH OF THE WATER. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. 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 31, 6:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette | 88 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.