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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

August 2, 2014Orange County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2014, 8:55 AM EDT for Orange County, Indiana. 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: Aug 2, 2014, 8:55 AM EDT (12:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2014, 9:25 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Orange County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:56 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 680 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Aug 2, 6:42 AM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:42 AM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 3:35 AM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 8:55 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
855 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014

INZ076-077-021325-
ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-
855 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAIN...
AND 40 MPH WINDS...

AT 851 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PAOLI...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAIN REDUCING
VISIBILITIES...AND GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH...ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

* THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT...
  PAOLI...
  SYRIA...
  PUMPKIN CENTER AND STAMPERS CREEK...
  BROMER AND MAHAN CROSSING...
  MILLERSBURG AND CLAYSVILLE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL 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 3877 8604 3877 8599 3876 8598 3877 8596
      3876 8594 3855 8619 3843 8648 3864 8664
      3870 8655 3869 8632 3873 8631 3878 8626
      3878 8619 3877 8613 3879 8608
TIME...MOT...LOC 1255Z 296DEG 12KT 3861 8641

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette	43 min
Aug 2, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	43 min
Aug 2, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	45 min
Aug 2, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	31 min
Aug 2, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	30 min
Aug 2, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Woodford	30 min
Aug 2, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Woodford	29 min
Aug 2, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	31 min
Aug 2, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Woodford	27 min
Aug 2, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	32 min
Aug 2, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	44 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Indiana, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.