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Flood Watch 5, NWS Louisville, KY

April 2, 201522 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flood watch at Apr 2, 2015, 3:51 AM EDT for 22 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Apr 2, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2015, 3:51 AM EDT (07:51 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 2, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 2, 2015, 11:59 AM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Flood severity: None

All 32 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, Anderson County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio 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), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 338 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 2, 3:45 AM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:45 AM EDT, 6 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, 8:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Simpson	29 min
Apr 2, 8:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	21 min
Apr 2, 8:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	30 min
Apr 2, 9:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	32 min
Apr 2, 9:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	27 min
Apr 2, 9:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Marion, Metcalfe, Taylor	30 min
Apr 2, 10:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Metcalfe, Taylor	32 min
Apr 2, 10:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Metcalfe	30 min
Apr 2, 11:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	20 min
Apr 2, 11:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	32 min
Apr 2, 11:59 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	LMK	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more	32 hr
Apr 2, 12:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Franklin	20 min
Apr 2, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	46 min
Apr 2, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	45 min
Apr 2, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	31 min
Apr 2, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	52 min
Apr 2, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	29 min
Apr 2, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby	51 min
Apr 2, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Meade	29 min
Apr 2, 4:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson, Meade and 3 more	3 hr
Apr 2, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Shelby	25 min
Apr 2, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Nelson, Spencer	37 min
Apr 2, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Logan	29 min
Apr 2, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Spencer, Washington	43 min
Apr 2, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Logan, Warren	32 min
Apr 2, 5:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Harrison, Nelson, Scott, Shelby and 3 more	3 hr
Apr 2, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott, Woodford	92 min
Apr 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Logan	27 min
Apr 2, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson, Warren	28 min
Apr 2, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Mercer and 4 more	3 hr
Apr 2, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, Warren	28 min
Apr 2, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	27 min
Apr 2, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren, Hart, Monroe	44 min
Apr 2, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Nicholas	18 min
Apr 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe, Taylor	44 min
Apr 2, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	32 min
Apr 2, 7:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	31 min
Apr 2, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	30 min
Apr 2, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	29 min
Apr 2, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	19 min
Apr 2, 7:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	20 min
Apr 2, 10:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	18 min
Apr 2, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Perry	30 min

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.