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Flash Flood Warning 107, NWS Louisville, KY

July 17, 2026Cumberland County, Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2026, 8:42 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 17, 2026, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2026, 10:51 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Cumberland County, KY, Monroe County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2026-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1319 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2026-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 7:15 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKClinton3 hr
Jul 17, 7:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKJessamine27 min
Jul 17, 7:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCumberland34 min
Jul 17, 7:51 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKCumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe3 hr
Jul 17, 8:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCumberland30 min
Jul 17, 8:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAdair35 min
Jul 17, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAdair, Green28 min
Jul 17, 8:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMarion35 min
Jul 17, 8:48 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKAdair, Cumberland, Green, Marion, Metcalfe, Taylor3 hr
Jul 17, 9:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMarion23 min
Jul 17, 10:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKAdair, Green, Taylor3 hr
Jul 18, 11:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCasey35 min
Jul 18, 12:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKGarrard38 min
Jul 18, 12:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCasey31 min
Jul 18, 12:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBoyle24 min
Jul 18, 12:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBullitt32 min
Jul 18, 1:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKRussell15 min
Jul 18, 1:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKNelson, Spencer23 min
Jul 18, 1:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKNelson, Spencer35 min
Jul 18, 1:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon28 min
Jul 18, 1:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKClinton, Cumberland, Russell34 min
Jul 18, 2:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAnderson38 min
Jul 18, 2:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Clark29 min
Jul 18, 2:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKClinton30 min
Jul 18, 2:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHarrison47 min
Jul 18, 3:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBoyle, Garrard26 min
Jul 18, 3:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKGarrard, Lincoln32 min
Jul 18, 3:33 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKClark3 hr
Jul 18, 3:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Nicholas36 min
Jul 18, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Hardin, Jefferson26 min
Jul 18, 6:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMeade20 min
Jul 18, 6:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBullitt16 min
Jul 18, 6:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMeade14 min
Jul 18, 6:51 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKBullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade114 min
Jul 18, 5:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCrawford15 min
Jul 18, 5:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHarrison15 min
Jul 18, 5:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKDubois13 min
Jul 18, 5:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHarrison15 min
Jul 18, 5:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCrawford10 min
Jul 18, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison31 min
Jul 18, 5:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCrawford14 min
Jul 18, 6:53 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKDubois3 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.