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Heat Advisory 5, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this heat advisory at Jul 17, 2012, 2:32 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Jul 17, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2012, 2:32 AM CDT (07:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 17, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2012, 2:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
Counties Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Hancock County, KY, Henry County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Trimble County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:35 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 2447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 16, 11:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 11:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 2:59 PM CDT, 11 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 359 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2012 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-172300- ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN-CRAWFORD IN- PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY-BRECKINRIDGE KY- MEADE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-BULLITT KY-JEFFERSON KY- OLDHAM KY-TRIMBLE KY-HENRY KY-SHELBY KY-FRANKLIN KY-SCOTT KY- HARRISON KY-SPENCER KY-ANDERSON KY-WOODFORD KY-FAYETTE KY-BOURBON KY- NICHOLAS KY-NELSON KY-WASHINGTON KY-MERCER KY-JESSAMINE KY-CLARK KY- LARUE KY-MARION KY-BOYLE KY-GARRARD KY-MADISON KY-BUTLER KY- EDMONSON KY-HART KY-GREEN KY-TAYLOR KY-CASEY KY-LINCOLN KY-LOGAN KY- WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY-ALLEN KY-BARREN KY-MONROE KY-METCALFE KY- ADAIR KY-RUSSELL KY-CUMBERLAND KY-CLINTON KY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAOLI...SALEM...SCOTTSBURG...MADISON... JASPER...MARENGO...TELL CITY...CORYDON...NEW ALBANY... JEFFERSONVILLE...HAWESVILLE...HARDINSBURG...BRANDENBURG... BEAVER DAM...LEITCHFIELD...ELIZABETHTOWN...FORT KNOX... MOUNT WASHINGTON...SHEPHERDSVILLE...LOUISVILLE...LA GRANGE... BEDFORD...NEW CASTLE...SHELBYVILLE...FRANKFORT...GEORGETOWN... CYNTHIANA...TAYLORSVILLE...LAWRENCEBURG...VERSAILLES...LEXINGTON... PARIS...CARLISLE...BARDSTOWN...SPRINGFIELD...HARRODSBURG... NICHOLASVILLE...WINCHESTER...HODGENVILLE...LEBANON...DANVILLE... LANCASTER...RICHMOND...MORGANTOWN...BROWNSVILLE...MUNFORDVILLE... GREENSBURG...CAMPBELLSVILLE...LIBERTY...STANFORD...RUSSELLVILLE... BOWLING GREEN...FRANKLIN...SCOTTSVILLE...GLASGOW...TOMPKINSVILLE... EDMONTON...COLUMBIA...JAMESTOWN...BURKESVILLE...ALBANY 359 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2012 /259 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND LIGHTNING. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS WE GET INTO MORE OF A SUMMERTIME PATTERN. LOCALLY TORRENTIAL RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS. MUGGY AIR COMBINED WITH VERY WARM TEMPERATURES WILL LEAD TO HIGH HEAT INDEX READINGS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. HEAT INDICES WILL PEAK IN THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE BOTH DAYS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY AS A WEAK COOL FRONT CROSSES THE REGION. HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT INSTANCES OF GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE (ALL LOWER CASE). AMS/RJS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler, Logan | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Grayson | 43 min |
| Jul 17, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Scott, Washington | 45 min |
| Jul 17, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Washington | 47 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.