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Areal Flood Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY

February 25, 20184 counties in Kentucky; Clark County, Jefferson County, Scott County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this areal flood warning at Feb 25, 2018, 1:01 AM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky; Clark County, Jefferson County, Scott County, Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 25, 2018, 1:01 AM EST (06:01 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2018, 7:00 AM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Clark County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Scott County, IN, Henry County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Trimble County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 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 areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 25, 12:27 AM EST, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 12:27 AM EST, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 25, 12:29 AM EST, 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 25, 12:19 AM EST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1219 AM EST SUN FEB 25 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1207 AM     FLASH FLOOD      1 SSW SPEED             38.41N 85.75W
02/25/2018                   CLARK              IN   BROADCAST MEDIA

            REPORTED AT NORTH INDIANA AVE, SELLERSBURG,
            IN WATER RESCUE IN PROGRESS.

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KC

Local storm report, Feb 25, 12:21 AM EST, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1221 AM EST SUN FEB 25 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1205 AM     TSTM WND GST     2 ESE BERRY             38.50N 84.35W
02/25/2018  M48 MPH          HARRISON           KY   MESONET

            MESONET STATION RBSN, 2 ESE BERRY.

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KC

Local storm report, Feb 25, 12:30 AM EST, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 25, 12:31 AM EST, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 25, 12:51 AM EST, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 25, 12:56 AM EST, 5 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
Feb 24, 7:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Shelby	29 min
Feb 24, 7:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Taylor	27 min
Feb 24, 7:29 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue	31 min
Feb 24, 8:35 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Meade	5 hr
Feb 24, 9:32 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Ohio	4 hr
Feb 24, 9:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham, Trimble	28 min
Feb 24, 9:34 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	41 min
Feb 24, 9:37 PM EST	River Flood Warning	LMK	Hart	45 hr
Feb 24, 9:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Oldham	3 hr
Feb 24, 10:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren	40 min
Feb 24, 10:14 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	31 min
Feb 24, 10:21 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	24 min
Feb 24, 10:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Jefferson, Meade	34 min
Feb 24, 10:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	32 min
Feb 24, 10:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson	46 min
Feb 24, 10:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade, Nelson, Shelby and 1 more	46 min
Feb 24, 10:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe, Warren	39 min
Feb 24, 10:59 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	3 hr
Feb 24, 11:03 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Spencer	3 hr
Feb 24, 11:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	45 min
Feb 24, 11:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Henry, Mercer, Nelson, Scott and 4 more	51 min
Feb 24, 11:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, Taylor	48 min
Feb 24, 11:56 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	19 min
Feb 25, 12:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Russell	45 min
Feb 25, 12:02 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	28 min
Feb 25, 12:10 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	35 min
Feb 25, 12:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Harrison, Woodford	47 min
Feb 25, 12:16 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Harrison and 5 more	3 hr
Feb 25, 12:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln, Russell	24 min
Feb 25, 12:31 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	29 min
Feb 25, 12:47 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Oldham, Spencer	18 hr
Feb 25, 12:52 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Ohio	6 hr
Feb 25, 1:03 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	42 min
Feb 25, 1:04 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Spencer	6 hr
Feb 25, 2:21 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison, Henry and 6 more	6 hr
Feb 25, 3:23 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Adair, Allen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Logan and 5 more	6 hr
Feb 25, 4:51 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Clark, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	6 hr
Feb 25, 6:15 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Meade	12 hr
Feb 25, 6:43 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio	12 hr
Feb 25, 6:58 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Nelson	12 hr
Feb 25, 7:00 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Henry, Trimble	12 hr
Feb 25, 5:39 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hancock, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade and 1 more	24 hr
Feb 24, 7:35 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange	4 hr
Feb 24, 8:27 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	33 min
Feb 24, 8:59 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Orange	46 min
Feb 24, 9:15 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	45 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2018 Areal Flood Warnings in Indiana, 2018 Every areal flood warning in 2018

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.