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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY

February 5, 20044 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 5, 2004, 2:17 PM CST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 5, 2004, 2:17 PM CST (20:17 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2004, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Adair County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Russell County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 422 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 838 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 052018
FFWLMK
KYC001-053-057-207-060000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
217 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ADAIR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  CLINTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED SO FAR 
TODAY OVER THE WARNING AREA. BANDS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL MOVE INTO 
THE AREA FROM TENNESSEE, WITH ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS OF 1 
TO 1.5 INCHES POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. CREEKS AND RIVERS ARE 
ALREADY RUNNING FULL AND MOVING SWIFT IN THE AREA, AND THERE HAVE 
BEEN REPORTS OF HIGH WATER ALONG ROADWAYS. WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL, 
SERIOUS FLOODING PROBLEMS MAY OCCUR.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ALBANY...BREEDING...  
BURKESVILLE...COLUMBIA AND JAMESTOWN

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF
CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS 
COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. DO NOT DRIVE 
INTO AREAS THAT ARE COVERED IN WATER

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

LAT...LON 3665 8546 3664 8528 3665 8505 3688 8509
          3702 8491 3727 8518 3710 8549 3695 8544
          3681 8555

$$
XXV

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KLMK 052231
FFSLMK
KYC001-053-057-207-060000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
429 PM CST THU FEB 5 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 6 PM CST FOR ADAIR, 
RUSSELL, CUMBERLAND, AND CLINTON COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL 
KENTUCKY...

AT 425 PM CST, WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT UP TO 2 TO 3 
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS, WITH THE HIGHEST 
AMOUNTS IN SOUTHERN PARTS OF CLINTON AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES. 
ADDITIONAL BANDS OF MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL 
MOVE INTO THE WARNED AREA FROM TENNESSEE THROUGH 6 PM CST. THIS 
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CONTRIBUTE TO FLOODING PROBLEMS. LAW 
ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED A FEW COUNTY ROADS AT LEAST PARTIALLY 
COVERED WITH WATER, SOME OF IT FLOWING NEXT TO SWOLLEN CREEKS, IN 
THE WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF
CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS 
COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. DO NOT DRIVE 
INTO AREAS THAT APPEAR COVERED IN WATER

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

$$
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Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.