Alert archive / Kentucky / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT for Spencer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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 16, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2012, 3:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
County Spencer County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
054
WWUS83 KLMK 161908
SPSLMK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
308 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2012
KYC179-215-161935-
NELSON KY-SPENCER KY-
308 PM EDT MON JUL 16 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...AND 40 MPH WINDS SLOWLY MOVING EAST ACROSS WESTERN SPENCER
COUNTY ...
AT 301 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TAYLORSVILLE...AND MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH.
OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS OF
AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH...ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
WITH THIS STORM...GUSTY WINDS WILL MOVE AWAY FROM THE STORM AND WILL
PRECEDE ANY RAINFALL.
* THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT...
TAYLORSVILLE...
FAIRFIELD...
BLOOMFIELD AND WAKEFIELD...
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 3803 8524 3781 8533 3787 8556 3795 8554
3795 8553 3797 8553 3799 8549 3801 8551
3806 8549
TIME...MOT...LOC 1906Z 282DEG 12KT 3794 8542
$$
JSDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bullitt | 27 min |
| Jul 16, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Warren | 27 min |
| Jul 16, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Grayson | 28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.