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Wind Chill Advisory 3, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 18, 2015, 2:59 AM CST for 49 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Feb 19, 2015, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2015, 2:59 AM CST (08:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 19, 2015, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2015, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
All 59 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 18, 2:31 AM CST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 2:31 AM CST, 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 18, 2:51 AM CST, 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 351 AM EST WED FEB 18 2015 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-190900- ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN-CRAWFORD IN- PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY-BRECKINRIDGE KY- MEADE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-BULLITT KY-JEFFERSON KY- OLDHAM KY-TRIMBLE KY-HENRY KY-SHELBY KY-FRANKLIN KY-SCOTT KY- HARRISON KY-SPENCER KY-ANDERSON KY-WOODFORD KY-FAYETTE KY-BOURBON KY- NICHOLAS KY-NELSON KY-WASHINGTON KY-MERCER KY-JESSAMINE KY-CLARK KY- LARUE KY-MARION KY-BOYLE KY-GARRARD KY-MADISON KY-BUTLER KY- EDMONSON KY-HART KY-GREEN KY-TAYLOR KY-CASEY KY-LINCOLN KY-LOGAN KY- WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY-ALLEN KY-BARREN KY-MONROE KY-METCALFE KY- ADAIR KY-RUSSELL KY-CUMBERLAND KY-CLINTON KY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAOLI...SALEM...SCOTTSBURG...MADISON... JASPER...MARENGO...TELL CITY...CORYDON...NEW ALBANY... JEFFERSONVILLE...HAWESVILLE...HARDINSBURG...BRANDENBURG... BEAVER DAM...LEITCHFIELD...ELIZABETHTOWN...FORT KNOX... MOUNT WASHINGTON...SHEPHERDSVILLE...LOUISVILLE...LA GRANGE... BEDFORD...NEW CASTLE...SHELBYVILLE...FRANKFORT...GEORGETOWN... CYNTHIANA...TAYLORSVILLE...LAWRENCEBURG...VERSAILLES...LEXINGTON... PARIS...CARLISLE...BARDSTOWN...SPRINGFIELD...HARRODSBURG... NICHOLASVILLE...WINCHESTER...HODGENVILLE...LEBANON...DANVILLE... LANCASTER...RICHMOND...MORGANTOWN...BROWNSVILLE...MUNFORDVILLE... GREENSBURG...CAMPBELLSVILLE...LIBERTY...STANFORD...RUSSELLVILLE... BOWLING GREEN...FRANKLIN...SCOTTSVILLE...GLASGOW...TOMPKINSVILLE... EDMONTON...COLUMBIA...JAMESTOWN...BURKESVILLE...ALBANY 351 AM EST WED FEB 18 2015 /251 AM CST WED FEB 18 2015/ ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM EST TODAY UNTIL 7 PM EST THURSDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LIGHT SNOW THIS MORNING AND SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON WILL DROP 1 TO LOCALLY 2 INCHES OF SNOW. WEST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH GUSTING TO 20 TO 30 MPH WILL MAKE IT DANGEROUS TO BE OUTSIDE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME THIS AFTERNOON. BY LATE AFTERNOON WIND CHILLS WILL FALL TO AROUND 10 BELOW ZERO. INTENSE COLD TONIGHT COMBINED WITH WEST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH WILL RESULT IN WIND CHILLS OF AT LEAST 15 TO 25 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS TO THE REGION THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LOW TEMPERATURES FRIDAY MORNING WILL BE IN THE -5 TO -15 RANGE WITH WIND CHILLS -5 TO -25. THESE TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS POSE A REAL DANGER TO ANYONE WHO IS OUTSIDE FOR PROLONGED PERIODS OF TIME! A STORM SYSTEM COULD BRING A WINTRY MIX TO THE AREA BEGINNING FRIDAY AFTERNOON. PRECIPITATION MAY START OFF AS SNOW FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING...THEN BECOME A WINTRY MIX FRIDAY NIGHT...AND A WINTRY MIX TO RAIN SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. SOME SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA WITH THIS SYSTEM. PLEASE STAY UP TO DATE TO THE FORECAST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS STORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT SNOWFALL TOTALS TODAY. 13/ZBT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 7:57 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer | 58 min |
| Feb 18, 8:02 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Nelson, Taylor and 1 more | 58 min |
| Feb 18, 8:33 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Spencer, Woodford | 87 min |
| Feb 18, 9:04 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair, Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Mercer and 1 more | 56 min |
| Feb 18, 1:00 PM CST | Wind Chill Warning | LMK | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more | 20 hr |
Nearby
Wind Chill Advisories in Kentucky, 2015Wind Chill Advisories in Indiana, 2015Every wind chill advisory in 2015
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.