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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Sep 8, 2012, 2:07 AM EDT for Bourbon County, Clark County, Nicholas County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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
- Sep 8, 2012, 2:07 AM EDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2012, 2:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
Counties Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY, Nicholas County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
766
WWUS83 KLMK 080607
SPSLMK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
207 AM EDT SAT SEP 8 2012
KYZ041>043-049-080650-
BOURBON KY-CLARK KY-FAYETTE KY-NICHOLAS KY-
207 AM EDT SAT SEP 8 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH 40 MPH WINDS...
AT 202 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CARLISLE TO
CADENTOWN...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH...ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
* THESE STORMS WILL ALSO IMPACT...
VETERANS PARK...
WINCHESTER...
CARLISLE...
CADENTOWN...
LITTLE ROCK AND PRETTY RUN...
MILLTOWN AND JACKSON FERRY...
OLIVERS AND PINCHEM...
HAGGARD AND COTTON BRANCH...
THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 64 IN KENTUCKY BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 101 AND 78.
THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 75 IN KENTUCKY BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 114 AND 99.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE AWARE THAT A GUST FRONT PRECEDING THESE STORMS WILL GENERATE
STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WELL BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF ANY RAIN.
&&
LAT...LON 3812 8407 3794 8396 3783 8400 3784 8408
3786 8409 3785 8411 3787 8413 3787 8422
3789 8423 3787 8426 3792 8427 3788 8434
3790 8445 3796 8451 3844 8401 3843 8394
3837 8391 3837 8388 3831 8383
TIME...MOT...LOC 0607Z 281DEG 28KT 3835 8396 3797 8435
$$
RASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 9:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 54 min |
| Sep 7, 10:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hancock | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 29 min |
| Sep 7, 10:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Butler, Grayson, Hancock, Ohio | 43 min |
| Sep 7, 11:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 40 min |
| Sep 7, 11:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 40 min |
| Sep 7, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 11:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin, Meade | 29 min |
| Sep 7, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade | 28 min |
| Sep 8, 12:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, Logan, Simpson and 1 more | 26 min |
| Sep 8, 12:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Shelby, Spencer | 46 min |
| Sep 8, 12:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hart, Larue, Nelson | 46 min |
| Sep 8, 12:39 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Jefferson | 111 min |
| Sep 8, 12:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Allen, Barren, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 26 min |
| Sep 8, 12:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Green, Harrison, Hart, Larue and 9 more | 42 min |
| Sep 8, 1:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson and 1 more | 43 min |
| Sep 8, 1:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 32 min |
| Sep 8, 1:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Anderson, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas and 2 more | 46 min |
| Sep 8, 2:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair, Casey, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison and 2 more | 43 min |
| Sep 7, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Dubois, Orange, Washington | 90 min |
| Sep 7, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 10:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Harrison, Orange, Perry and 2 more | 40 min |
| Sep 7, 10:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 31 min |
| Sep 7, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Washington | 29 min |
| Sep 7, 11:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Crawford | 32 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.