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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

November 3, 20125 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Nov 3, 2012, 6:01 PM EDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 44 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
Nov 3, 2012, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired
Nov 3, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Anderson County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 286 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2012-11-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2012-11-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 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.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 3, 4:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKFranklin, Shelby, Spencer30 min
Nov 3, 5:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAnderson, Fayette, Franklin, Scott, Shelby, Spencer and 1 more42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012

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.