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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

June 20, 2014Trimble County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2014, 1:20 PM EDT for Trimble County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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
Jun 20, 2014, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2014, 1:50 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY

County Trimble County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2014-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2014-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-201 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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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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 Jun 20, 1:14 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:14 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 11:22 AM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 1:20 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 8:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKFranklin31 min
Jun 19, 8:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBourbon3 hr
Jun 19, 10:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMetcalfe32 min
Jun 19, 11:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAdair29 min
Jun 19, 11:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAdair32 min
Jun 20, 3:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKLogan28 min
Jun 20, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKButler, Logan, Simpson28 min
Jun 20, 4:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHenry28 min
Jun 20, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAllen, Simpson, Warren27 min
Jun 20, 5:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKFranklin, Jefferson, Shelby30 min
Jun 20, 5:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHarrison31 min
Jun 20, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon32 min
Jun 20, 5:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMeade29 min
Jun 20, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAnderson, Franklin, Scott, Spencer30 min
Jun 20, 5:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBarren, Metcalfe32 min
Jun 20, 5:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBullitt, Spencer30 min
Jun 20, 5:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHarrison45 min
Jun 20, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBullitt, Meade30 min
Jun 20, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCumberland, Monroe30 min
Jun 20, 6:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Fayette, Woodford32 min
Jun 20, 6:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Clark29 min
Jun 20, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKClinton, Russell44 min
Jun 20, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKClark29 min
Jun 20, 7:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKGarrard, Madison44 min
Jun 20, 7:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHancock32 min
Jun 20, 7:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMarion33 min
Jun 20, 3:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCrawford32 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.