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River Flood Warning 39, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2025, 8:40 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It took effect at Mar 16, 2025, 6:05 AM CDT. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2025, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2025, 6:05 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2025, 3:53 AM CDT
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Warren County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Drakes Creek near Alvaton (ALVK2). The gauge peaked at 28.75 ft at Mar 16, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 22 ft
- Minor stage
- 24 ft
- Moderate stage
- 35 ft
- Major stage
- 42 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03314000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 15, 2:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 2:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
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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 | 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, 12:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clinton, Russell | 3 hr |
| 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 |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.