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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this winter storm watch at Jan 21, 2016, 3:37 AM EST for 5 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Jan 21, 2016, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2016, 3:37 AM EST (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2016, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2016, 3:49 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
Counties Dubois County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 21, 12:26 AM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 12:26 AM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 3:37 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LMK | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more | 51 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:49 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LMK | Dubois, Jefferson, Orange, Scott, Washington | 30 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.