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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

August 11, 2014Adair County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 11, 2014, 9:13 AM CDT for Adair County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 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 11, 2014, 9:13 AM CDT (14:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2014, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Adair County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 1887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 11, 8:22 AM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 8:22 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 2:32 AM CDT, 6 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 11, 7:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 8:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 8:18 AM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 11, 8:31 AM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 8:50 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 9:13 AM CDT, 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
Aug 10, 7:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Harrison	3 hr
Aug 10, 8:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	3 hr
Aug 10, 9:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	115 min
Aug 11, 6:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren	45 min
Aug 11, 7:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Simpson, Warren	45 min
Aug 11, 7:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Warren	53 min
Aug 11, 7:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, Simpson	45 min
Aug 11, 8:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe	47 min
Aug 11, 8:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	113 min
Aug 11, 8:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Casey, Cumberland, Russell, Taylor	45 min
Aug 11, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Clinton, Lincoln, Russell	46 min
Aug 11, 10:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Allen, Barren, Metcalfe, Monroe	47 min
Aug 11, 11:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe	45 min
Aug 11, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	10 min
Aug 11, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham	29 min
Aug 11, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	32 min
Aug 11, 1:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby	28 min
Aug 11, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren, Metcalfe	32 min
Aug 11, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	28 min
Aug 11, 2:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Simpson	119 min
Aug 11, 2:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby	2 hr
Aug 11, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin, Jefferson, Meade	43 min
Aug 11, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	43 min
Aug 11, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Shelby	40 min
Aug 11, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	45 min
Aug 11, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue, Nelson, Spencer	32 min
Aug 11, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	28 min
Aug 11, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion, Nelson, Spencer, Washington	32 min
Aug 11, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Marion, Mercer, Taylor, Washington	31 min
Aug 11, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham, Trimble	30 min
Aug 11, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	31 min
Aug 11, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	30 min
Aug 11, 5:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Marion	112 min
Aug 11, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	31 min
Aug 11, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Barren, Metcalfe	31 min
Aug 11, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	33 min
Aug 11, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	32 min
Aug 11, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	30 min
Aug 11, 5:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	2 hr
Aug 11, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	47 min
Aug 11, 5:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	3 hr
Aug 11, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	28 min
Aug 11, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Perry	32 min
Aug 11, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Harrison	30 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.