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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

August 4, 2016Shelby County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 4:16 PM EDT for Shelby County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 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 4, 2016, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Shelby County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

685 
WWUS83 KLMK 042016
SPSLMK

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
416 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2016

KYZ031-034-042100-
SHELBY-OLDHAM-
416 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN OLDHAM AND CENTRAL
SHELBY COUNTIES...

AT 415 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
SHELBYVILLE... MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. IT IS PRODUCING EXTREMELY
HEAVY RAIN WITH UP TO 1 INCH IN 40 MINUTES.  

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHELBYVILLE...SIMPSONVILLE...MIDDLETOWN HEIGHTS...CHESTNUT GROVE...
CONNER...MONTCLAIR...CLAY VILLAGE...JOYES...TODDS POINT AND HOOPER.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3829 8519 3820 8507 3808 8519 3816 8542
      3824 8541 3827 8541 3834 8539
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 171DEG 7KT 3820 8530 

$$
JDG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Warren	36 min
Aug 4, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette	39 min
Aug 4, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	37 min
Aug 4, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	31 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	113 min
Aug 4, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Spencer	33 min
Aug 4, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	34 min
Aug 4, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Mercer	42 min
Aug 4, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	38 min
Aug 4, 4:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Logan	2 hr
Aug 4, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	36 min
Aug 4, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Jessamine, Woodford	44 min
Aug 4, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Woodford	66 min
Aug 4, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	50 min
Aug 4, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Clark	43 min
Aug 4, 5:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Monroe	2 hr
Aug 4, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	29 min
Aug 4, 6:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Warren	114 min
Aug 4, 6:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clark, Fayette	3 hr
Aug 4, 6:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen	2 hr
Aug 4, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clinton	3 hr
Aug 4, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	26 min
Aug 4, 12:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Washington	3 hr
Aug 4, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	25 min
Aug 4, 1:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Washington	3 hr
Aug 4, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Orange	37 min
Aug 4, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Harrison	33 min
Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Harrison	116 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.