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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

May 28, 20124 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2012, 5:13 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 62 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: May 28, 2012, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Bourbon County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Nicholas County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1483 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -35 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.

026 
WWUS83 KLMK 282113
SPSLMK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
513 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2012

KYZ036-037-041>043-282215-
BOURBON-FAYETTE-HARRISON-NICHOLAS-SCOTT-
513 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...HALF 
INCH HAIL...AND 40 MPH WINDS MOVING THROUGH THE BLUEGRASS REGION...

AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF
CYNTHIANA TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARIS TO LEXINGTON...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND 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 THESE STORMS.

* THESE STORMS WILL ALSO IMPACT...
  GEORGETOWN...
  LEXINGTON...
  PARIS...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...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 3813 8407 3807 8427 3801 8464 3813 8461
      3831 8449 3856 8441 3858 8421 3856 8420
      3855 8416 3851 8418 3848 8415 3844 8400
      3844 8398 3838 8391 3837 8391 3831 8383
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 216DEG 11KT 3850 8432 3825 8433
          3807 8445

$$

MJ

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.