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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

July 23, 2013Dubois County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2013, 5:36 PM EDT for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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 23, 2013, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2013, 6:05 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Dubois County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 257 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 23, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 3:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:43 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
443 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 2013

INZ083-232145-
DUBOIS IN-
443 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 2013

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND 40
MPH WINDS ENTERING DUBOIS COUNTY...

AT 439 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF JASPER...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN REDUCING
VISIBILITIES...AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT...
  JASPER...
  HAYSVILLE...
  MALTERSVILLE...
  DUBOIS...
  BRETZVILLE...

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 3850 8708 3852 8704 3851 8698 3851 8696
      3849 8695 3851 8694 3850 8688 3853 8684
      3853 8669 3827 8668 3826 8691 3835 8708
TIME...MOT...LOC 2043Z 297DEG 15KT 3843 8700

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:36 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
536 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 2013

INZ083-089-232205-
DUBOIS IN-PERRY IN-
536 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 2013

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND
40 MPH WINDS...

AT 535 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTH OF
WINSLOW TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF JASPER...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN REDUCING
VISIBILITIES...AND GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH...ARE EXPECTED
WITH THESE STORMS.

* THESE STORMS WILL ALSO IMPACT...
  HUNTINGBURG AIRPORT AND HOLLAND...
  JOHNSBURG AND SAINT HENRY...
  ADYEVILLE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING. EXPECT PONDING OF WATER ON LOCAL
ROADWAYS. DRIVERS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND TURN ON THEIR HEADLIGHTS IF
ENCOUNTERING HEAVY RAINS.

&&

LAT...LON 3836 8693 3817 8667 3817 8680 3818 8681
      3820 8680 3820 8707 3821 8708 3835 8708
TIME...MOT...LOC 2136Z 307DEG 23KT 3827 8720 3829 8695

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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 23, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	43 min
Jul 23, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	29 min
Jul 23, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	29 min
Jul 23, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	62 min
Jul 23, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	60 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.