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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

July 2, 2012Barren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2012, 7:47 AM CDT for Barren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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: Jul 2, 2012, 7:47 AM CDT (12:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2012, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Barren County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 695 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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 Jul 2, 7:39 AM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 7:39 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 2:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 7:47 AM CDT, 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
Jul 1, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham, Trimble	28 min
Jul 1, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	30 min
Jul 1, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	31 min
Jul 1, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	28 min
Jul 1, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	20 min
Jul 1, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham	31 min
Jul 1, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer	32 min
Jul 1, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	30 min
Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	30 min
Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Nelson, Spencer	30 min
Jul 1, 8:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Marion, Mercer, Washington, Woodford	42 min
Jul 1, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Shelby, Spencer	32 min
Jul 1, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Scott, Shelby	24 min
Jul 1, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Spencer, Washington	28 min
Jul 1, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	28 min
Jul 1, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Scott, Woodford	32 min
Jul 1, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer, Woodford	28 min
Jul 1, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Taylor	45 min
Jul 1, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Scott	19 min
Jul 1, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Hart, Larue	32 min
Jul 1, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	29 min
Jul 1, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Madison, Nicholas	42 min
Jul 1, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	16 min
Jul 1, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	20 min
Jul 1, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green	28 min
Jul 1, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Taylor	31 min
Jul 1, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	30 min
Jul 1, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	30 min
Jul 1, 10:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Russell	28 min
Jul 2, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	29 min
Jul 2, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	29 min
Jul 2, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	31 min
Jul 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	31 min
Jul 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	30 min
Jul 2, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	30 min
Jul 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	30 min
Jul 2, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	31 min
Jul 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	28 min
Jul 2, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	29 min
Jul 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	30 min
Jul 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Warren	3 hr
Jul 2, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	30 min
Jul 2, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	29 min
Jul 2, 4:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Warren	3 hr
Jul 2, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	30 min
Jul 2, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	32 min
Jul 2, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	29 min
Jul 2, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	32 min
Jul 2, 4:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Warren	92 min
Jul 2, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	29 min
Jul 2, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	12 min
Jul 2, 5:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Warren	2 hr
Jul 2, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	31 min
Jul 2, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	32 min
Jul 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Monroe	30 min
Jul 2, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue	29 min
Jul 2, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	44 min
Jul 1, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	30 min
Jul 1, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott, Washington	32 min
Jul 1, 7:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Jefferson, Scott, Washington	2 hr
Jul 2, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	15 min
Jul 2, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	30 min
Jul 2, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	29 min
Jul 2, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	29 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.