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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

July 3, 2016Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2016, 10:21 PM EDT for Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 3, 2016, 10:21 PM EDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2016, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Taylor County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.

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Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

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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: 1123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1351 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

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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 Jul 3, 8:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 8:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 9:52 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 8:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:26 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 10:02 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 10:15 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 10:21 PM EDT, 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
Jul 3, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Ohio	29 min
Jul 3, 8:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Hardin, Meade	2 hr
Jul 3, 8:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	35 min
Jul 3, 8:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin	18 min
Jul 3, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	27 min
Jul 3, 8:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	46 min
Jul 3, 9:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin, Hart, Larue	30 min
Jul 3, 9:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	34 min
Jul 3, 10:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Mercer, Washington	43 min
Jul 3, 10:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	33 min
Jul 4, 9:43 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Meade	6 hr
Jul 4, 11:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	26 min
Jul 4, 12:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Woodford	26 min
Jul 4, 12:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	36 min
Jul 4, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette	23 min
Jul 4, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	34 min
Jul 4, 1:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Hart, Larue	6 hr
Jul 4, 1:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Nicholas	34 min
Jul 4, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	36 min
Jul 4, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	32 min
Jul 4, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Warren	31 min
Jul 4, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson	37 min
Jul 4, 2:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hart, Warren	66 min
Jul 4, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren	35 min
Jul 4, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	30 min
Jul 4, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, Warren	25 min
Jul 4, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Metcalfe, Warren	31 min
Jul 4, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	26 min
Jul 4, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	25 min
Jul 4, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	30 min
Jul 4, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Monroe	25 min
Jul 4, 3:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe	53 min
Jul 4, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Taylor	35 min
Jul 4, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green, Taylor	29 min
Jul 4, 3:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair, Taylor	18 min
Jul 4, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Marion, Taylor	30 min
Jul 4, 3:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Green, Metcalfe, Taylor	114 min
Jul 4, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	2 hr
Jul 4, 3:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey	19 min
Jul 4, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln, Russell	51 min
Jul 4, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln	34 min
Jul 4, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	36 min
Jul 4, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	25 min
Jul 4, 9:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry	3 hr

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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.