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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

June 4, 2012Logan County, Simpson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2012, 11:02 PM CDT for Logan County, Simpson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 4, 2012, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Logan County, KY, Simpson County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren, Monroe	38 min
Jun 4, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	23 min
Jun 4, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson, Warren	28 min
Jun 4, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	31 min
Jun 5, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	37 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.