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River Flood Warning 27, NWS Louisville, KY

March 28, 2018Butler County, Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this river flood warning at Mar 28, 2018, 12:26 PM CDT for Butler County, Warren County, Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 29, 2018, 4:27 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2018, 12:26 PM CDT (17:26 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 29, 2018, 4:27 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 1, 2018, 9:14 PM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Butler County, KY, Warren County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Green River (KY) above Woodbury (WDHK2). The gauge peaked at 28.97 ft at Mar 31, 2018, 10:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 24 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 38 ft
Major stage: 41 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03315500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 28, 12:16 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 12:16 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 9:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 7:09 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 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
Mar 28, 1:56 AM CDT	Flood Watch	LMK	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 40 more	38 hr
Mar 28, 7:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Dubois	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2018 Every river 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.