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Flood Watch 1, NWS Louisville, KY

April 3, 201439 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flood watch at Apr 3, 2014, 2:28 AM CDT for 39 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2014, 2:28 AM CDT (07:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2014, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Flood severity: None

All 49 counties

Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:29 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Apr 3, 2:22 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 2:22 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 2:37 PM CDT, 11 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 8:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 2, 9:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 2, 10:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Garrard	32 min
Apr 2, 10:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	28 min
Apr 2, 10:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Trimble	28 min
Apr 2, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Trimble	30 min
Apr 3, 3:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson, Warren	29 min
Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	30 min
Apr 3, 11:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham, Trimble	33 min
Apr 3, 11:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Ohio	31 min
Apr 3, 12:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	29 min
Apr 3, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue, Nelson	29 min
Apr 3, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Mercer, Washington	26 min
Apr 3, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Garrard	30 min
Apr 3, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Garrard	30 min
Apr 3, 2:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Warren	23 hr
Apr 3, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	30 min
Apr 3, 2:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Trimble	6 hr
Apr 3, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	44 min
Apr 3, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Hart, Taylor	30 min
Apr 3, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Taylor	30 min
Apr 3, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	47 min
Apr 3, 5:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Hancock	3 hr
Apr 3, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	44 min
Apr 3, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	32 min
Apr 3, 5:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Casey, Lincoln, Taylor	3 hr
Apr 3, 6:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson, Green, Hart	3 hr
Apr 3, 6:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade, Ohio	3 hr
Apr 3, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	32 min
Apr 3, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Spencer	31 min
Apr 3, 6:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	3 hr
Apr 2, 8:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	32 min
Apr 2, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	47 min
Apr 2, 10:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	30 min
Apr 3, 5:49 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	25 hr
Apr 3, 6:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington	30 min
Apr 3, 6:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	32 min
Apr 3, 7:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	32 min
Apr 3, 7:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange	31 min
Apr 3, 8:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	32 min
Apr 3, 9:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	28 min
Apr 3, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	31 min
Apr 3, 10:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Orange	29 min
Apr 3, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Perry	20 min
Apr 3, 10:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Scott, Washington	30 min
Apr 3, 4:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Scott, Washington	6 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2014 Flood Watches in Indiana, 2014 Every 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.