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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood watch at Feb 20, 2014, 4:10 AM EST for 15 counties in Kentucky; 5 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Feb 20, 2014, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2014, 4:10 AM EST (09:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2014, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2014, 11:51 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 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 watch 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 watch went out at Feb 20, 3:33 AM EST, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 3:33 AM EST, 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 6:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Ohio | 30 min |
| Feb 20, 6:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler, Grayson | 32 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2014Flash Flood Watches in Indiana, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.