Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2004, 3:50 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Kentucky. It was in force for 85 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
- Jul 5, 2004, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cumberland County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 2320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KLMK 052052
FFWLMK
KYC057-052215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
350 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 348 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. RAINFALL RATES OF
UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE LIKELY.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
PEYTONSBURG...MARROWBONE...DUBRE...BECKS STORE AND AMANDAVILLE.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS,HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY,
COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND
OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND
TELEVISION MEDIA FOR DETAILS AND FURTHER UPDATES.
LAT...LON 3669 8549 3673 8548 3674 8553 3682 8560
3684 8557 3686 8560 3686 8550 3693 8545
3692 8526 3689 8528 3683 8523 3663 8530
3663 8530 3662 8543
$$
XXVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Warren | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 2:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan | 85 min |
| Jul 5, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen | 95 min |
| Jul 5, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Monroe | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Shelby | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 36 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.