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Heat Advisory 8, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this heat advisory at Aug 3, 2011, 2:39 AM CDT for 21 counties in Kentucky; 5 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Aug 3, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2011, 2:39 AM CDT (07:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 3, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
All 26 counties
Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Meade County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Warren County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 856 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Aug 3, 2:24 AM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:24 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison, Henry, Scott, Trimble | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 7:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison, Henry, Nicholas and 2 more | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Nicholas, Scott | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 8:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Woodford | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 8:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Scott | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine and 3 more | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 8:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Franklin, Harrison, Scott | 96 min |
| Aug 3, 9:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Anderson, Garrard, Madison, Mercer | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 9:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 107 min |
| Aug 3, 9:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Boyle, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Jessamine and 5 more | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 9:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine, Madison | 111 min |
| Aug 3, 9:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Woodford | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 10:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 3:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Aug 3, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bullitt | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 4:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 48 min |
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.