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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2017, 5:03 PM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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 23, 2017, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2017, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
County Hardin County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted.
384 WWUS83 KLMK 232103 SPSLMK Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Louisville KY 503 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2017 KYZ027-028-053-063-232130- Hart-Grayson-Hardin-Larue- 503 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2017 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN LARUE... NORTHWESTERN HART...SOUTHEASTERN GRAYSON AND SOUTH CENTRAL HARDIN COUNTIES... At 503 PM EDT/403 PM CDT/, a strong thunderstorm was located 12 miles east of Leitchfield, moving northeast at 35 mph. Wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Upton, Sonora, Rock Creek, Seven Corners, Lines Mill, Broad Ford, Flint Hill, Pearman, Snap and Glendale. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. They can relay your report to the National Weather Service office in Louisville. LAT...LON 3734 8609 3745 8621 3766 8590 3748 8572 TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 230DEG 31KT 3743 8607 $$ EBW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Logan | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Marion, Taylor | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 3:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Taylor | 17 min |
| Jun 23, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 4:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Ohio | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 4:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin, Meade, Nelson | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Larue | 16 min |
| Jun 23, 5:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Larue, Marion, Nelson | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 5:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Anderson, Bullitt, Mercer, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Spencer | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Franklin, Harrison, Henry, Oldham, Scott, Shelby and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Nelson, Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 6:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Casey, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 6:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer, Washington and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Franklin, Harrison, Scott, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Casey, Taylor | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 6:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Nicholas and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Mercer | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Madison | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 7:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark | 25 min |
Nearby
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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.