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Snow Advisory 1, NWS Louisville, KY

January 13, 200617 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this snow advisory at Jan 13, 2006, 3:50 PM EST for 17 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Jan 14, 2006, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 13, 2006, 3:50 PM EST (20:50 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 14, 2006, 12:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 14, 2006, 7:00 AM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
All 21 counties

Clark County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Madison County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 278 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 12:00Z on 2006-01-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2006-01-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1318 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.