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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Louisville, KY

July 30, 2024Hart County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2024, 2:04 PM CDT for Hart County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 30, 2024, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2024, 2:28 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Hart County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 1824 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 30, 1:26 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 1:26 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 10:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 30, 1:43 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 30, 1:50 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 30, 1:52 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 30, 1:54 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 30, 2:02 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 30, 2:04 PM CDT, 0 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
Jul 29, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	35 min
Jul 30, 12:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	43 min
Jul 30, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	34 min
Jul 30, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Meade, Nelson	36 min
Jul 30, 1:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	43 min
Jul 30, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	27 min
Jul 30, 1:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson	35 min
Jul 30, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	29 min
Jul 30, 1:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade, Shelby and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 30, 1:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	23 min
Jul 30, 2:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	25 min
Jul 30, 2:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Woodford	25 min
Jul 30, 2:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	34 min
Jul 30, 2:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	24 min
Jul 30, 2:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Mercer, Woodford	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark, Fayette	35 min
Jul 30, 2:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	28 min
Jul 30, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jessamine	25 min
Jul 30, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Mercer	37 min
Jul 30, 3:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	24 min
Jul 30, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	37 min
Jul 30, 7:32 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LMK	Allen, Butler, Hancock, Logan, Ohio, Simpson and 1 more	8 hr
Jul 30, 11:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Meade	43 min
Jul 30, 11:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	39 min
Jul 30, 12:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	43 min
Jul 30, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	26 min
Jul 30, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson	36 min
Jul 30, 12:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	24 min
Jul 30, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade	44 min
Jul 30, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	36 min
Jul 30, 12:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	106 min
Jul 30, 12:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson, Larue	47 min
Jul 30, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue	26 min
Jul 30, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Butler, Ohio	39 min
Jul 30, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Green, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Marion and 3 more	51 min
Jul 30, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Spencer	47 min
Jul 30, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart and 2 more	45 min
Jul 30, 1:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart	81 min
Jul 30, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Muhlenberg	25 min
Jul 30, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland and 9 more	57 min
Jul 30, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Spencer, Washington, Woodford	26 min
Jul 30, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Warren	37 min
Jul 30, 2:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Green, Metcalfe, Russell	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe	36 min
Jul 30, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	31 min
Jul 29, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	27 min
Jul 29, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Perry	48 min
Jul 29, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Perry	31 min
Jul 29, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford	48 min
Jul 29, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange	35 min
Jul 30, 12:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	26 min
Jul 30, 1:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington	3 hr
Jul 30, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	47 min
Jul 30, 11:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange, Washington	33 min
Jul 30, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	42 min
Jul 30, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Perry	36 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.