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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Louisville, KY

June 9, 2026Hardin County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2026, 9:27 AM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 9, 2026, 9:27 AM EDT (13:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2026, 1:49 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Hardin County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:30 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 696 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 9, 9:11 AM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 9:11 AM EDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 9:12 AM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 9:19 AM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 9:21 AM EDT, 6 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Louisville KY
921 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0900 AM     Flood            3 E Rineyville          37.75N 85.91W
06/09/2026                   Hardin             KY   Public

            Neighborhood flooding on Boone Rd off of
            South Wilson Rd.

&&

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 9:27 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Louisville KY
927 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0818 AM     Rain             Liberty                 37.32N 84.93W
06/09/2026  M4.21 Inch       Casey              KY   Public

            Personal Weather Station, KKYLIBER6, Weather
            Underground station name 22-5-08 Casey
            County Primary Care. Hardware is Ambient
            Weather WS-140-IP.

&&

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 9:27 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Louisville KY
927 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026

INZ083-084-089-090-KYZ025-091415-
Crawford IN-Perry IN-Dubois IN-Harrison IN-Meade KY-
927 AM EDT Tue Jun 9 2026

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN HARRISON...
SOUTHEASTERN DUBOIS...CRAWFORD...PERRY AND NORTHWESTERN MEADE
COUNTIES THROUGH 1015 AM EDT/915 AM CDT/...

At 927 AM EDT/827 AM CDT/, Doppler radar was tracking strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from 11 miles west of English to
near Santa Claus. Movement was east at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
English, Carefree Town, Mount Pleasant, Ferdinand, Marengo, Milltown,
Leopold, Birdseye, Troy, and Leavenworth.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3840 8669 3838 8609 3797 8661 3799 8679
      3800 8681 3802 8680 3800 8677 3803 8678
      3803 8677 3804 8679 3806 8677 3808 8678
      3810 8677 3812 8681 3812 8680 3815 8681
      3821 8679 3820 8689
TIME...MOT...LOC 1327Z 267DEG 23KT 3835 8667 3808 8696

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

AMS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan, Warren	50 min
Jun 8, 11:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan, Simpson	41 min
Jun 9, 12:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Simpson	45 min
Jun 9, 12:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Logan	3 hr
Jun 9, 1:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Ohio	3 hr
Jun 9, 2:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Warren	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:02 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Butler	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Ohio	4 hr
Jun 9, 4:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin and 2 more	4 hr
Jun 9, 4:41 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Hart	4 hr
Jun 9, 7:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, Taylor	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Casey, Grayson, Green, Hardin and 7 more	3 hr
Jun 9, 8:07 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Taylor	3 hr
Jun 9, 8:27 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge	3 hr
Jun 9, 8:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson, Washington	3 hr
Jun 9, 8:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Hart	2 hr
Jun 9, 8:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	34 min
Jun 9, 9:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hancock, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 9, 9:53 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard and 7 more	5 hr
Jun 9, 9:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Shelby, Spencer	3 hr
Jun 9, 10:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Larue, Taylor	3 hr
Jun 9, 10:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson	3 hr
Jun 9, 10:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	3 hr
Jun 9, 10:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Taylor	5 hr
Jun 9, 10:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Fayette	4 hr
Jun 9, 12:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	3 hr
Jun 9, 12:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Franklin, Woodford	2 hr
Jun 9, 12:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Franklin, Henry, Jefferson, Nelson and 3 more	2 hr
Jun 9, 1:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Taylor	42 min
Jun 9, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	30 min
Jun 9, 1:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Larue	85 min
Jun 9, 1:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson	3 hr
Jun 9, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	44 min
Jun 9, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Simpson	50 min
Jun 9, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	50 min
Jun 9, 3:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 9, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Warren	48 min
Jun 9, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	42 min
Jun 9, 4:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Warren	86 min
Jun 9, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	45 min
Jun 9, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren, Monroe	43 min
Jun 9, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	46 min
Jun 9, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland	44 min
Jun 9, 5:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Logan	93 min
Jun 9, 9:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Perry	48 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.