Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Watches in 2014
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood watch at Aug 30, 2014, 7:22 PM CDT for 37 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2014, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Flood severity
- None
All 37 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 7:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 3 hr |
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.