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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood watch at Jan 10, 2020, 2:46 AM CST for Hancock County, Kentucky; 7 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Jan 11, 2020, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2020, 2:46 AM CST (08:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 11, 2020, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2020, 5:54 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Hancock County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 2551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 499 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Jan 10, 2:42 AM CST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 2:42 AM CST, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 2:27 PM CST, 12 hours 19 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Louisville KY 327 PM EST Thu Jan 9 2020 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-102030- Orange-Washington-Scott-Jefferson-Dubois-Crawford-Perry-Harrison- Floyd-Clark-Hancock-Breckinridge-Meade-Ohio-Grayson-Hardin-Bullitt- Oldham-Trimble-Henry-Shelby-Franklin-Spencer-Anderson-Woodford- Fayette-Bourbon-Nicholas-Nelson-Mercer-Jessamine-Larue-Marion-Boyle- Garrard-Madison-Butler-Edmonson-Hart-Green-Taylor-Casey-Lincoln- Logan-Warren-Simpson-Allen-Barren-Monroe-Metcalfe-Adair-Russell- Cumberland-Clinton- Including the cities of Paoli, Salem, Scottsburg, Madison, Jasper, English, Tell City, Corydon, New Albany, Jeffersonville, Lewisport, Hawesville, Hardinsburg, Brandenburg, Hartford, Leitchfield, Elizabethtown, Shepherdsville, Louisville, La Grange, Bedford, Milton, New Castle, Shelbyville, Frankfort, Georgetown, Cynthiana, Taylorsville, Lawrenceburg, Versailles, Lexington, Paris, Carlisle, Bardstown, Springfield, Harrodsburg, Nicholasville, Winchester, Hodgenville, Lebanon, Danville, Lancaster, Richmond, Morgantown, Brownsville, Horse Cave, Greensburg, Campbellsville, Liberty, Stanford, Russellville, Bowling Green, Franklin, Providence, Scottsville, Glasgow, Tompkinsville, Edmonton, Columbia, Jamestown, Burkesville, and Albany 327 PM EST Thu Jan 9 2020 /227 PM CST Thu Jan 9 2020/ This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of south central Indiana and Central Kentucky. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Strong to locally damaging winds and flooding rains are possible on Saturday. A line of heavy showers and a few thunderstorms will move through the Ohio Valley, producing briefly torrential rainfall which could lead to localized flash flooding. The strongest storms will also produce gusty winds in excess of 40 mph. Strong wind gusts exceeding 40 mph are also possible outside of any showers or storms on Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required Saturday. DM/RAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2:52 AM CST | Wind Advisory | LMK | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more | 40 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Indiana, 2020Flash Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2020Every flash flood watch in 2020
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.