Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2003, 7:12 PM EST for Scott County, Indiana. It was in force for 93 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
- Sep 2, 2003, 7:12 PM EST (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2003, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scott County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KLMK 030017
FFWLMK
INC143-030245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
712 PM EST TUE SEP 2 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
* UNTIL 945 PM EST
* AT 710 PM EST...SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN SCOTT
COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY. ALTHOUGH
THERE HAVE BEEN SIGNS OF A WEAKENING TREND...LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTED ROADS IMPASSABLE AT FIVE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE
LEXINGTON AREA. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME FOR THE WATER TO
RECEDE...EVEN IF THE RAIN ENDS. AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD
WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED.
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.
REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
LOUISVILLE.
LAT...LON 3868 8561 3866 8555 3863 8561 3860 8568
3860 8590 3864 8585 3864 8584 3874 8567
$$
STUREY1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KLMK 030139 FFSLMK INC077-143-030245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 834 PM EST TUE SEP 2 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM EST FOR JEFFERSON AND SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 830 PM EST...POCKETS OF SHOWERS CONTINUED AROUND PARTS OF SCOTT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. THE PUBLIC AND LAW ENFORCEMENT STILL REPORT FLOODED ROADS IN SOUTHEAST SCOTT COUNTY AND ACROSS JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. AS A RESULT...EVEN THOUGH THE COVERAGE OF THE RAIN HAS DIMINISHED... IT WILL TAKE TIME FOR WATERS T0 RECEDE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS...IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO JUDGE THE ACTUAL DEPTH OF THE WATER. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. $$ STUREY
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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.