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Flood Watch 2, NWS Louisville, KY

February 9, 201949 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flood watch at Feb 9, 2019, 2:02 PM CST for 49 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Feb 10, 2019, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 39 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 9, 2019, 2:02 PM CST (20:02 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 10, 2019, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 12, 2019, 9:06 AM CST
In force: 39 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Flood severity: None

All 59 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, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 375 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: 1811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 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 Feb 9, 11:21 AM CST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 9, 11:21 AM CST, 2 hours 41 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 9, 10:03 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LMK	Hancock	23 days
Feb 9, 2:03 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Meade, Ohio and 1 more	23 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2019 Flood Watches in Indiana, 2019 Every flood watch in 2019

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.