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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2026, 9:22 AM CDT for Logan County, Simpson County, Warren 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
- May 26, 2026, 9:22 AM CDT (14:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2026, 12:24 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Logan County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Warren County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:25 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 May 26, 6:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 26, 7:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Logan | 35 min |
| May 26, 7:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler | 28 min |
| May 26, 7:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Butler, Logan | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 4 hr |
| May 26, 9:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Butler, Ohio | 3 hr |
| May 26, 10:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Logan, Ohio, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Meade | 4 hr |
| May 26, 1:33 PM CDT | Flood Watch | LMK | Anderson, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison and 11 more | 30 hr |
| May 26, 1:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Nelson, Taylor | 3 hr |
| May 26, 1:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Marion, Nelson, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Washington | 35 min |
| May 26, 2:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Marion, Nelson, Washington | 117 min |
| May 26, 3:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Mercer | 27 min |
| May 26, 3:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Anderson, Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington, Woodford | 3 hr |
| May 26, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jessamine, Mercer | 28 min |
| May 26, 3:39 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LMK | Ohio | 14 hr |
| May 26, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 33 min |
| May 26, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Fayette | 22 min |
| May 26, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark | 29 min |
| May 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.