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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Louisville, KY

September 5, 2012Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2012, 7:02 PM EDT for Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 58 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 5, 2012, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Madison County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

325 
WGUS53 KLMK 052302
FFWLMK
KYC151-060000-
/O.NEW.KLMK.FF.W.0033.120905T2302Z-120906T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
702 PM EDT WED SEP 5 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND EASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 653 PM EDT...THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN RICHMOND REPORTED SEVERAL
  STREETS IN RICHMOND IMPASSIBLE AND A COUPLE CARS STALLED IN THE 
  WATER. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS THE AREA...BUT THE HEAVIEST 
  RAIN WILL MOVE TO THE EAST OUT OF THE REGION BY 730 PM EDT. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...RICHMOND...

  FLASH FLOOD PRONE AREAS IN THIS WARNING...
  OTTER CREEK BACKS UP ONTO RED HOUSE ROAD.
  A BRANCH OF KNOB LICK CREEK OVERFLOWS ONTO KNOB LICK ROAD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

REPORT FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT...POST YOUR REPORT TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET YOUR
REPORT USING HASHTAG L...M...K...SPOTTER.

&&

LAT...LON 3773 8409 3767 8409 3764 8412 3758 8409
      3756 8409 3756 8415 3767 8431 3779 8435
      3779 8410 3778 8410 3777 8408 3774 8407

$$

TWF

1 follow-up statement

067 
WGUS73 KLMK 052359
FFSLMK

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
759 PM EDT WED SEP 5 2012

KYC151-060005-
/O.EXP.KLMK.FF.W.0033.000000T0000Z-120906T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MADISON KY-
759 PM EDT WED SEP 5 2012

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL
MADISON COUNTY...

THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

REPORT FLOODING TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT...POST YOUR REPORT TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET YOUR
REPORT USING HASHTAG L...M...K...SPOTTER.

LAT...LON 3773 8409 3767 8409 3764 8412 3758 8409
      3756 8409 3756 8415 3767 8431 3779 8435
      3779 8410 3778 8410 3777 8408 3774 8407

$$

RS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	32 min
Sep 5, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	31 min
Sep 5, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade, Ohio	28 min
Sep 5, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	28 min
Sep 5, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham	43 min
Sep 5, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	32 min
Sep 5, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Butler, Grayson, Hardin, Meade, Ohio	47 min
Sep 5, 4:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	116 min
Sep 5, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	28 min
Sep 5, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue, Nelson, Spencer, Washington	29 min
Sep 5, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Henry, Shelby	29 min
Sep 5, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Warren	28 min
Sep 5, 4:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Shelby	18 min
Sep 5, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Scott, Woodford	46 min
Sep 5, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Larue, Marion, Nelson, Washington	28 min
Sep 5, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Warren	29 min
Sep 5, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Woodford	31 min
Sep 5, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon	117 min
Sep 5, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine, Scott	45 min
Sep 5, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Allen, Barren, Metcalfe, Monroe, Russell and 1 more	43 min
Sep 5, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer and 1 more	42 min
Sep 5, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	29 min
Sep 5, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	31 min

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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.