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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

July 18, 2013Jessamine County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2013, 1:39 PM EDT for Jessamine County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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 18, 2013, 1:39 PM EDT (17:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2013, 2:10 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Jessamine County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 1579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 8:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	22 min
Jul 17, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Spencer	32 min
Jul 17, 8:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	31 min
Jul 18, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	26 min
Jul 18, 1:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Fayette	3 hr
Jul 18, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	29 min
Jul 18, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland	45 min
Jul 18, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	32 min
Jul 18, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Russell	45 min
Jul 18, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion	30 min
Jul 18, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Spencer	29 min
Jul 18, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	31 min
Jul 18, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Green	30 min
Jul 18, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green, Taylor	31 min
Jul 18, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	39 min
Jul 18, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Garrard	43 min
Jul 18, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	32 min
Jul 18, 7:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Garrard	116 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.