Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 2009
Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 2009, 8:29 AM EDT for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 2009, 8:29 AM EDT (12:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2009, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Dubois County, IN
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:32 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 6, 7:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 7:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 6, 4:02 AM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 402 AM EDT SUN SEP 6 2009 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>034-038-039-045>047-053>055- 061>066-070>078-081-082-070815- ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN- CRAWFORD IN-PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY- BRECKINRIDGE KY-MEADE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-BULLITT KY- JEFFERSON KY-OLDHAM KY-TRIMBLE KY-HENRY KY-SHELBY KY-SPENCER KY- ANDERSON KY-NELSON KY-WASHINGTON KY-MERCER KY-LARUE KY-MARION KY- BOYLE KY-BUTLER KY-EDMONSON KY-HART KY-GREEN KY-TAYLOR KY- CASEY KY-LOGAN KY-WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY-ALLEN KY-BARREN KY- MONROE KY-METCALFE KY-ADAIR KY-RUSSELL KY-CUMBERLAND KY- CLINTON KY- 402 AM EDT SUN SEP 6 2009 /302 AM CDT SUN SEP 6 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP TODAY ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. WHILE WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINS ARE NOT EXPECTED.....ISOLATED DOWNPOURS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DECREASED VISIBILITY AND BRIEF LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...ESPECIALLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 65. IN ADDITION TO LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AND AGAIN ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ANY STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... KYZ035>037-040>043-048-049-056-057-067-070815- FRANKLIN KY-SCOTT KY-HARRISON KY-WOODFORD KY-FAYETTE KY- BOURBON KY-NICHOLAS KY-JESSAMINE KY-CLARK KY-GARRARD KY- MADISON KY-LINCOLN KY- 402 AM EDT SUN SEP 6 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED BY AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...ISOLATED LOCATIONS COULD RECEIVE A BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOUR REDUCING VISIBILITY FOR A TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AND AGAIN ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ANY STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. JBS/MJ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 7:44 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 744 AM EDT SUN SEP 6 2009 INZ076-077-083-084-089-090-KYZ024-025-061230- BRECKINRIDGE-CRAWFORD-DUBOIS-HARRISON-MEADE-ORANGE-PERRY-WASHINGTON- 744 AM EDT SUN SEP 6 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AT 740 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF ENGLISH AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IN ADDITION...MORE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JASPER TO BOONVILLE WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH INTO THE AREA. FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE HALF MILE...ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THIS STORM WILL BE... NEAR HUNTINGBURG AROUND 850 AM EDT... NEAR SALEM AROUND 830 AM EDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING. EXPECT PONDING OF WATER ON LOCAL ROADWAYS. DRIVERS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND TURN ON THEIR HEADLIGHTS IF ENCOUNTERING HEAVY RAINS. && AML
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 1:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Simpson | 116 min |
| Sep 6, 2:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Harrison, Scott, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 2:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Scott | 118 min |
| Sep 6, 8:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 111 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2009Every flash flood warning in 2009
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.