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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

June 20, 2011Casey County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2011, 1:21 AM EDT for Casey County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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
Jun 20, 2011, 1:21 AM EDT (05:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2011, 1:45 AM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY

County Casey County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 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 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 00:00Z on 2011-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3898 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2011-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3898 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.2
Supercell composite
14.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

398 
WWUS83 KLMK 200521
SPSLMK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
121 AM EDT MON JUN 20 2011

KYZ066-067-200545-
CASEY-LINCOLN-
121 AM EDT MON JUN 20 2011

...THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...PENNY SIZE 
HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS...

AT 119 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF LIBERTY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
35 MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL RATES
OF AROUND ONE INCH PER HOUR REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE
MILE...PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH...ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT...
  LIBERTY...
  WALLTOWN AND WAYNESBURG...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS RADIO...
WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE ON THE INTERNET...OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER
UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

&&

LAT...LON 3734 8450 3734 8451 3734 8453 3736 8457
      3719 8481 3732 8503 3751 8487 3741 8448
TIME...MOT...LOC 0521Z 295DEG 30KT 3735 8479

$$

DK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 1:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCasey, Lincoln13 min
Jun 20, 1:35 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBullitt25 min
Jun 20, 1:50 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Nelson, Spencer25 min
Jun 20, 1:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson36 min
Jun 20, 1:58 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBoyle, Lincoln32 min
Jun 20, 2:55 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKShelby, Spencer35 min
Jun 20, 2:59 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCasey31 min
Jun 20, 4:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBoyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison101 min
Jun 20, 7:14 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMadison31 min
Jun 20, 7:49 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKMadison3 hr
Jun 20, 9:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKNicholas29 min
Jun 20, 1:26 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKFloyd, Harrison34 min
Jun 20, 2:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKOrange31 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.