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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Louisville, KY

May 9, 20034 counties in Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 2003, 4:22 PM EST for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 113 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: May 9, 2003, 4:22 PM EST (21:22 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2003, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Crawford County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Orange County, IN, Washington County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 1208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 452 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 486 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.9
Supercell composite: 19.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 092124
FFWLMK
INC025-061-117-175-100015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
422 PM EST FRI MAY 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 715 PM EST(815 PM EDT)

* AT 417 PM EST...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FLASH FLOOD OVER       
  PORTIONS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY. A FEW LOCATIONS HAVE RECEIVED UP TO 3 
  INCHES OF RAIN WITH THESE STORMS. 

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CORYDON...ENGLISH...PAOLI AND
  SALEM

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.

REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3865 8669 3829 8664 3804 8596 3844 8602
          3874 8590 3875 8625 3870 8632

$$

JA

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KLMK 092235
FFSLMK
INC025-061-117-175-100015-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
533 PM EST FRI MAY 9 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM EST(815 PM EDT) FOR
WASHINGTON...ORANGE...CRAWFORD AND HARRISON COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL
INDIANA...

AT 630 PM EDT SEVERAL ROADS IN CRAWFORD AND ORANGE COUNTIES REMAINED 
COVERED WITH WATER AND CLOSED. 

THE HEAVY RAIN THAT CAUSED THE FLOODING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA 
BUT WATER WILL REMAIN OVER SOME ROADS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

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.

$$

JA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	43 min
May 8, 7:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	29 min
May 9, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	18 min
May 9, 1:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	35 min
May 9, 1:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	21 min
May 9, 2:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	32 min
May 9, 2:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	50 min
May 9, 2:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	36 min
May 9, 3:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange	60 min
May 9, 3:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	30 min
May 9, 3:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	51 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.