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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Louisville, KY

March 16, 2025Clinton County, Russell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 2025, 12:55 AM CDT for Clinton County, Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2025, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2025, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Clinton County, KY, Russell County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 392 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: 190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 417 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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 Mar 15, 2:43 PM CDT, 10 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 2:43 PM CDT, 10 hours 12 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 15, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Simpson, Warren	4 hr
Mar 15, 8:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Warren	31 hr
Mar 15, 8:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Butler, Warren	5 days
Mar 15, 8:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Ohio	53 hr
Mar 15, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	17 min
Mar 15, 11:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Anderson, Boyle, Casey, Franklin, Green and 12 more	118 min
Mar 16, 4:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Butler, Muhlenberg, Ohio	5 days
Mar 16, 4:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	37 min
Mar 16, 5:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby	15 min
Mar 16, 5:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson, Ohio	26 min
Mar 16, 6:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	30 min
Mar 16, 7:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Mercer, Scott, Woodford	33 min
Mar 16, 7:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	29 min
Mar 16, 8:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	31 min
Mar 16, 9:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	37 min
Mar 16, 9:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	31 min
Mar 16, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Hart	35 hr
Mar 16, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Edmonson	56 hr
Mar 16, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LMK	Warren	7 hr
Mar 16, 10:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln, Madison	30 min
Mar 16, 10:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	43 min
Mar 16, 10:57 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LMK	Hardin, Nelson	4 hr
Mar 16, 11:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	30 min
Mar 16, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Lincoln, Russell	28 min
Mar 16, 11:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	25 min
Mar 16, 11:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln, Madison	23 min
Mar 16, 3:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Hardin, Nelson	53 hr
Mar 16, 5:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Warren	16 hr
Mar 16, 6:22 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LMK	Harrison, Washington	39 min
Mar 16, 7:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison, Washington	6 hr

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.