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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

May 13, 2014Larue County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at May 13, 2014, 9:13 PM EDT for Larue 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: May 13, 2014, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2014, 9:40 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Larue County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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: 114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 May 13, 8:56 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 8:56 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 3:57 PM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 13, 7:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 7:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 7:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 7:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 9:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson	31 min
May 13, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	31 min
May 13, 9:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	30 min
May 13, 10:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin	29 min
May 13, 11:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	31 min
May 14, 8:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	45 min
May 14, 8:14 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Hancock	3 hr
May 14, 8:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Hancock	4 hr
May 14, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Taylor	45 min
May 14, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green, Taylor	30 min
May 14, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	46 min
May 14, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette	29 min
May 14, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Russell	27 min
May 14, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Mercer	27 min
May 14, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	32 min
May 14, 2:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	LMK	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more	12 hr
May 14, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon	25 min
May 14, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Nicholas	19 min
May 14, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Monroe	29 min
May 14, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark, Nicholas	29 min
May 14, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe, Monroe	42 min
May 14, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	31 min
May 14, 4:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Barren, Monroe	114 min
May 14, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	32 min
May 14, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	31 min
May 14, 5:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe	5 hr
May 14, 5:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson	3 hr
May 14, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	30 min
May 14, 6:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Hancock	3 hr
May 14, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	31 min
May 14, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	45 min
May 14, 6:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Logan, Ohio	119 min
May 14, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Warren	29 min
May 14, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	30 min
May 14, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	30 min
May 13, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Orange	30 min
May 14, 9:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Crawford, Orange, Washington	114 min
May 14, 7:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Perry	3 hr
May 14, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange	32 min
May 14, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	32 min
May 14, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Orange, Perry	28 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.