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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2016, 9:13 PM EDT for Clark County, Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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 15, 2016, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2016, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
Counties Clark County, KY, Madison County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 74 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 177 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
- 1813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted.
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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 15, 8:19 PM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 8:19 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 312 PM EDT WED JUN 15 2016 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>035-038>040-045>047-053>055- 061>067-070>078-081-082-161915- ORANGE-WASHINGTON-SCOTT-JEFFERSON-DUBOIS-CRAWFORD-PERRY-HARRISON- FLOYD-CLARK-HANCOCK-BRECKINRIDGE-MEADE-OHIO-GRAYSON-HARDIN-BULLITT- OLDHAM-TRIMBLE-HENRY-SHELBY-FRANKLIN-SPENCER-ANDERSON-WOODFORD- NELSON-MERCER-LARUE-MARION-BOYLE-BUTLER-EDMONSON-HART-GREEN-TAYLOR- CASEY-LINCOLN-LOGAN-WARREN-SIMPSON-ALLEN-BARREN-MONROE-METCALFE- ADAIR-RUSSELL-CUMBERLAND-CLINTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAOLI...SALEM...SCOTTSBURG...MADISON... JASPER...ENGLISH...TELL CITY...CORYDON...NEW ALBANY... JEFFERSONVILLE...LEWISPORT...HAWESVILLE...HARDINSBURG... BRANDENBURG...HARTFORD...LEITCHFIELD...ELIZABETHTOWN... SHEPHERDSVILLE...LOUISVILLE...LA GRANGE...BEDFORD...MILTON... NEW CASTLE...SHELBYVILLE...FRANKFORT...TAYLORSVILLE...LAWRENCEBURG... VERSAILLES...BARDSTOWN...SPRINGFIELD...HARRODSBURG...HODGENVILLE... LEBANON...DANVILLE...MORGANTOWN...BROWNSVILLE...HORSE CAVE... GREENSBURG...CAMPBELLSVILLE...LIBERTY...STANFORD...RUSSELLVILLE... BOWLING GREEN...FRANKLIN...PROVIDENCE...SCOTTSVILLE...GLASGOW... TOMPKINSVILLE...EDMONTON...COLUMBIA...JAMESTOWN...BURKESVILLE... ALBANY 312 PM EDT WED JUN 15 2016 /212 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016/ ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 258 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT /9 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING... ESPECIALLY ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 65. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LOCAL FLOODING FROM TORRENTIAL RAIN...WITH GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ISOLATED STORMS ARE FORECAST LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY OVER THE BLUEGRASS AND LAKE CUMBERLAND REGIONS. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL. HEAT INDEX VALUES THURSDAY AFTERNOON WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 90S TO AROUND 100. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE INVITED TO REPORT INSTANCES OF FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT THROUGH TOMORROW. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE. KYZ036-037-041>043-048-049-056-057-161915- SCOTT-HARRISON-FAYETTE-BOURBON-NICHOLAS-JESSAMINE-CLARK-GARRARD- MADISON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGETOWN...CYNTHIANA...LEXINGTON... PARIS...CARLISLE...NICHOLASVILLE...WINCHESTER...LANCASTER...RICHMOND 312 PM EDT WED JUN 15 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING WITH LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ISOLATED STORMS ARE FORECAST LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY OVER THE BLUEGRASS AND LAKE CUMBERLAND REGIONS. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL. HEAT INDEX VALUES THURSDAY AFTERNOON RANGE FROM THE MID 90S TO AROUND 100. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE INVITED TO REPORT INSTANCES OF FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT THROUGH TOMORROW. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE. 13
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Local storm report, Jun 15, 8:42 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 8:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 23 min |
| Jun 15, 8:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Fayette, Woodford | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Logan, Ohio, Warren | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Taylor | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Russell, Taylor | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Warren | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Barren, Edmonson | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Russell | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Casey | 15 min |
| Jun 16, 6:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 117 min |
| Jun 16, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 11 min |
| Jun 16, 6:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 18 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.