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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Louisville, KY

January 19, 20169 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this winter storm watch at Jan 19, 2016, 2:48 AM CST for 9 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Jan 20, 2016, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 19, 2016, 2:48 AM CST (08:48 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 20, 2016, 3:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 19, 2016, 11:04 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Butler County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Logan County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Warren County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 19, 2:44 AM CST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 2:44 AM CST, 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 18, 10:58 PM CST, 3 hours 50 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
Jan 19, 2:48 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	LMK	Adair, Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 34 more	34 hr
Jan 19, 11:04 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	LMK	Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Clinton, Cumberland and 12 more	26 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Kentucky, 2016 Every winter storm watch in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.