Alert archive / Kentucky / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2011, 5:03 PM EDT for Larue County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2011, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2011, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
County Larue County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
025 WWUS83 KLMK 232103 SPSLMK SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 503 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011 KYZ027-028-045-053-232130- GRAYSON-HARDIN-LARUE-NELSON- 503 PM EDT WED MAR 23 2011 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS... AT 454 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES EAST OF LEITCHFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL RATES OF AROUND ONE INCH PER HOUR REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE MILE...SMALL PEA OR DIME SIZE HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH...ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT... HODGENVILLE... NOLIN AND SONORA... TONIEVILLE AND TANNER... MATHERS MILL AND BOUNDARY OAK... LEAFDALE AND JERICHO... THIS STORM WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 65 IN KENTUCKY BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 81 AND 86. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE AWARE THAT A GUST FRONT PRECEDING THIS STORM WILL GENERATE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WELL BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF ANY RAIN. && LAT...LON 3767 8559 3752 8554 3748 8614 3762 8616 TIME...MOT...LOC 2059Z 264DEG 37KT 3754 8602 $$ JDG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Nelson | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Nelson, Washington | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 24 min |
| Mar 23, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Spencer | 27 min |
| Mar 23, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jessamine, Mercer | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer, Woodford | 24 min |
| Mar 23, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 20 min |
| Mar 23, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Anderson, Nelson, Woodford | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark | 13 min |
| Mar 23, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Edmonson, Hart | 22 min |
| Mar 23, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Edmonson | 24 min |
| Mar 23, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Washington | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Shelby | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark, Jessamine | 29 min |
| Mar 23, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Green, Taylor | 24 min |
| Mar 23, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer, Woodford | 27 min |
| Mar 23, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Harrison, Scott | 44 min |
| Mar 23, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Warren | 23 min |
| Mar 23, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln, Marion | 26 min |
| Mar 23, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair, Green | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 27 min |
| Mar 23, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 10 min |
| Mar 23, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Simpson, Warren | 36 min |
| Mar 23, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Barren | 50 min |
| Mar 23, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Green, Russell | 32 min |
| Mar 23, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Monroe | 29 min |
| Mar 23, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Russell | 15 min |
| Mar 23, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Monroe | 15 min |
| Mar 23, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe, Russell | 37 min |
| Mar 23, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Grayson, Ohio | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 29 min |
| Mar 23, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Crawford | 27 min |
| Mar 23, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Scott | 32 min |
| Mar 23, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 28 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.