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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

January 23, 20126 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jan 23, 2012, 4:10 AM EST for 6 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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: Jan 23, 2012, 4:10 AM EST (09:10 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 2012, 4:45 AM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Nicholas County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 415 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jan 23, 2:58 AM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 2:58 AM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 23, 3:31 AM EST, 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 23, 3:43 AM EST, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 23, 3:44 AM EST, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 23, 3:46 AM EST, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 23, 4:09 AM EST, 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jan 23, 4:10 AM EST, 0 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 23, 4:10 AM EST, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 12:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	33 min
Jan 23, 1:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Ohio	24 min
Jan 23, 1:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Ohio	24 min
Jan 23, 1:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	34 min
Jan 23, 1:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren	31 min
Jan 23, 1:51 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	39 min
Jan 23, 2:02 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson, Hart, Warren	28 min
Jan 23, 2:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Nelson	33 min
Jan 23, 2:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson, Warren	31 min
Jan 23, 2:15 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham, Trimble	30 min
Jan 23, 2:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue, Nelson	60 min
Jan 23, 2:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	26 min
Jan 23, 2:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Monroe	37 min
Jan 23, 2:44 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Shelby, Spencer	31 min
Jan 23, 2:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry, Trimble	28 min
Jan 23, 2:51 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Shelby	24 min
Jan 23, 3:01 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Taylor	29 min
Jan 23, 3:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	36 min
Jan 23, 3:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Marion	30 min
Jan 23, 3:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer, Washington	30 min
Jan 23, 3:21 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Scott, Woodford	24 min
Jan 23, 3:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	32 min
Jan 23, 3:44 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Mercer, Scott, Woodford	31 min
Jan 23, 3:46 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln	29 min
Jan 23, 4:09 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Russell	21 min
Jan 23, 4:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	13 min
Jan 23, 5:42 AM EST	Wind Advisory	LMK	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more	11 hr
Jan 23, 11:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Trimble	24 min
Jan 23, 12:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry	38 min
Jan 23, 1:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry	35 min
Jan 23, 1:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	32 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.