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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

March 28, 2012Nicholas County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Mar 28, 2012, 4:21 PM EDT for Nicholas County, Kentucky. It was in force for 9 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 28, 2012, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 9 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Nicholas County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -285 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 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.

455 
WWUS83 KLMK 282021
SPSLMK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
421 PM EDT WED MAR 28 2012

KYZ043-282030-
NICHOLAS-
421 PM EDT WED MAR 28 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND
PENNY SIZE HAIL...

AT 416 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CARLISLE...AND MOVING EAST 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...AND PENNY SIZE HAIL...ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT...

  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY.

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 3829 8384 3821 8395 3822 8402 3835 8400
      3835 8385 3833 8384 3831 8383
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 281DEG 28KT 3828 8390

$$

AMS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Harrison	25 min
Mar 28, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	36 min
Mar 28, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby	28 min
Mar 28, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	25 min
Mar 28, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	33 min
Mar 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	31 min
Mar 28, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Scott	26 min
Mar 28, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	36 min
Mar 28, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	35 min
Mar 28, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Spencer	33 min
Mar 28, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	26 min
Mar 28, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	24 min
Mar 28, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Woodford	31 min
Mar 28, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Scott	23 min
Mar 28, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Jessamine, Mercer, Shelby, Woodford	31 min
Mar 28, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette	18 min
Mar 28, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	24 min
Mar 28, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jessamine	31 min
Mar 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	3 min
Mar 28, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Madison	24 min
Mar 28, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	33 min
Mar 28, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	20 min
Mar 28, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	34 min
Mar 28, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	19 min
Mar 28, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange	38 min
Mar 28, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford	33 min

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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.