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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

March 23, 2012Henry County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT for Henry County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Henry County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 233 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 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 Mar 23, 1:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 1:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 23, 11:32 AM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 23, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
158 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012

KYZ029-038-045-231830-
BULLITT-NELSON-SPENCER-
158 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...HALF
INCH HAIL...AND 50 MPH WINDS...

AT 155 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF BARDSTOWN...AND MOVING NORTH AT
35 MPH.

OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...HALF INCH HAIL...AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 45 TO 50 MPH ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT...
  TAYLORSVILLE...
  WAKEFIELD AND SMITHVILLE...
  WATERFORD AND CRENSHAW...
  ELK CREEK AND NORMANDY...

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 3807 8517 3805 8514 3782 8537 3788 8558
      3808 8557 3808 8555 3812 8543
TIME...MOT...LOC 1757Z 200DEG 31KT 3794 8543

AL

Local storm report, Mar 23, 2:35 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
235 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0214 PM     TORNADO          FERN CREEK              38.16N  85.60W
03/23/2012                   JEFFERSON          KY   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN THE HERITAGE CREEK AREA

&&

EVENT NUMBER LMK1200463

RL

Special weather statement, Mar 23, 3:00 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
300 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012

KYZ033-034-231930-
HENRY-SHELBY-
300 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...HALF
INCH HAIL...AND 40 MPH WINDS...

AT 256 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHELBYVILLE...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

* THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT...
  PLEASUREVILLE AND ELMBURG...
  DEFOE AND NORTH PLEASUREVILLE...
  BETHLEHEM...
  SLABTOWN AND FRANKLINTON...

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 3856 8500 3851 8502 3852 8499 3849 8499
      3846 8494 3847 8492 3846 8490 3844 8492
      3842 8488 3840 8488 3837 8491 3834 8499
      3834 8497 3820 8511 3829 8522 3858 8504
TIME...MOT...LOC 1900Z 216DEG 23KT 3830 8513

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Spencer	32 min
Mar 23, 2:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	27 min
Mar 23, 2:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer	33 min
Mar 23, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Trimble	30 min
Mar 23, 3:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Trimble	5 min
Mar 23, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	34 min
Mar 23, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	29 min
Mar 23, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	26 min
Mar 23, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	25 min
Mar 23, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	14 min
Mar 23, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	37 min
Mar 23, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	27 min
Mar 23, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	32 min
Mar 23, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark, Floyd	36 min
Mar 23, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford	49 min
Mar 23, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange, Washington	17 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.