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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 4, 2021, 5:21 AM CDT for Adair County, Cumberland County, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2021, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2021, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Adair County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 8:11 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 N Marrowbone, KY | REPORT OF KY 90 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING AROUND MARROWBONE. |
| May 4, 8:30 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 W Dubre, KY | DISPATCHED REPORTED KY90/SUMMER SHADE RD. ONE MILE WEST OF THE CUMBERLAND/METCALF COUNTY LINE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODED ROADWAY. |
| May 4, 8:30 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Sse Edmonton, KY | REPORT OF THE CEDAR FLAT CURTIS BRIDGE FLOODED DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted.
843
WGUS53 KLMK 041021
FFWLMK
KYC001-057-169-041330-
/O.NEW.KLMK.FF.W.0013.210504T1021Z-210504T1330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Louisville KY
521 AM CDT Tue May 4 2021
The National Weather Service in Louisville has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southwestern Adair County in south central Kentucky...
Northern Cumberland County in south central Kentucky...
Southeastern Metcalfe County in south central Kentucky...
* Until 830 AM CDT.
* At 520 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or
expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Doppler radar.
IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets and underpasses as well as other
drainage and low lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Breeding, Cofer, Toria, Sparksville, Curtis, Dubre, Bakerton,
Amandaville, Chance, and Cedar Flats.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
&&
LAT...LON 3684 8566 3695 8562 3700 8545 3702 8540
3702 8533 3699 8532 3690 8529 3686 8525
3684 8534 3682 8560 3683 8560
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
$$
13The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 12:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Warren | 22 min |
| May 4, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 33 min |
| May 4, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Monroe | 34 min |
| May 4, 12:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Edmonson | 15 min |
| May 4, 1:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Barren, Warren | 43 min |
| May 4, 1:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Metcalfe | 33 min |
| May 4, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Monroe | 30 min |
| May 4, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Warren | 27 min |
| May 4, 2:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Barren | 32 min |
| May 4, 2:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler | 36 min |
| May 4, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Hart | 32 min |
| May 4, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 23 min |
| May 4, 3:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren | 3 hr |
| May 4, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 33 min |
| May 4, 3:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair, Butler, Clinton, Cumberland, Edmonson, Green and 2 more | 28 min |
| May 4, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LMK | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Casey, Clinton and 13 more | 22 hr |
| May 4, 4:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 3 hr |
| May 4, 4:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler | 34 min |
| May 4, 4:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Butler | 5 hr |
| May 4, 4:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 36 min |
| May 4, 4:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Hart | 3 hr |
| May 4, 5:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Green | 27 min |
| May 4, 5:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Allen, Barren, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 40 min |
| May 4, 5:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Metcalfe, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 4, 5:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 4, 5:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Allen, Simpson | 47 min |
| May 4, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Simpson | 20 min |
| May 4, 6:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Barren, Monroe | 19 min |
| May 4, 6:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Allen, Barren, Metcalfe, Monroe | 3 hr |
| May 4, 6:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Allen, Cumberland, Monroe | 47 min |
| May 4, 6:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 8:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 4, 8:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Metcalfe, Warren | 4 hr |
| May 4, 10:12 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 11 hr |
| May 4, 1:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Warren | 4 days |
| May 4, 1:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Muhlenberg, Ohio | 5 days |
| May 4, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Warren | 50 min |
| May 4, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Spencer | 27 min |
| May 4, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Simpson | 47 min |
| May 4, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Edmonson | 49 min |
| May 4, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler | 34 min |
| May 4, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler | 34 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.