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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2016, 4:35 PM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2016, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Hardin County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:50 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Elizabethtown, KY | ROADS FLOODED AROUND COURTHOUSE IN DOWNTOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
915
WGUS53 KLMK 102035
FFWLMK
KYC093-102330-
/O.NEW.KLMK.FF.W.0007.160510T2035Z-160510T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
435 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HARDIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT
* AT 434 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
ELIZABETHTOWN...RADCLIFF...VINE GROVE...LEBANON JUNCTION...MULDRAUGH...
WEST POINT...UPTON...SONORA...STEPHENSBURG AND NOLIN.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3780 8616 3782 8600 3788 8598 3799 8600
3800 8593 3794 8590 3794 8585 3789 8581
3787 8583 3782 8574 3778 8574 3774 8568
3754 8588 3744 8589 3745 8606 3750 8605
3757 8611 3756 8618 3760 8625 3759 8628
$$
AMSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hancock | 34 min |
| May 10, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 37 min |
| May 10, 2:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 28 min |
| May 10, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Meade | 47 min |
| May 10, 2:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 23 min |
| May 10, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 31 min |
| May 10, 3:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin | 26 min |
| May 10, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 15 min |
| May 10, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson | 34 min |
| May 10, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Grayson, Larue | 38 min |
| May 10, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Nelson | 31 min |
| May 10, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hardin | 29 min |
| May 10, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin | 37 min |
| May 10, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue, Marion, Nelson | 35 min |
| May 10, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Nelson, Spencer, Washington | 33 min |
| May 10, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Green, Hart, Larue, Marion | 43 min |
| May 10, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Washington | 35 min |
| May 10, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Boyle, Mercer, Washington, Woodford | 27 min |
| May 10, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Larue, Marion, Taylor | 42 min |
| May 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue | 37 min |
| May 10, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Boyle, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer and 1 more | 47 min |
| May 10, 5:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 20 min |
| May 10, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison and 2 more | 38 min |
| May 10, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Taylor | 30 min |
| May 10, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Ohio | 44 min |
| May 10, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Marion, Taylor | 36 min |
| May 10, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Ohio | 36 min |
| May 10, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison | 39 min |
| May 10, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Marion, Taylor | 29 min |
| May 10, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue, Taylor | 22 min |
| May 10, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison | 47 min |
| May 10, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Ohio | 47 min |
| May 10, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln, Taylor | 15 min |
| May 10, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Ohio | 13 min |
| May 10, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 43 min |
| May 10, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln, Marion, Taylor | 30 min |
| May 10, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson, Ohio | 28 min |
| May 10, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Meade | 42 min |
| May 10, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby | 36 min |
| May 10, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe | 33 min |
| May 10, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 20 min |
| May 10, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson | 29 min |
| May 10, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Green | 33 min |
| May 10, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Green, Taylor | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.