Alert archive / Kentucky / Flood Watches in 2018
Flood Watch 2, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flood watch at Feb 9, 2018, 2:06 AM CST for 21 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Feb 10, 2018, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 2018, 2:06 AM CST (08:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 10, 2018, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2018, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Flood severity
- None
All 21 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Hart County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.