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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

May 10, 2018Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at May 10, 2018, 11:31 PM EDT for Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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: May 10, 2018, 11:31 PM EDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2018, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Taylor County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 1320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	34 min
May 10, 10:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	34 min
May 10, 10:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	24 min
May 10, 11:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	30 min
May 10, 11:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Russell	31 min
May 10, 11:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	24 min
May 10, 11:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland	29 min
May 10, 11:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	21 min
May 11, 12:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	15 min
May 11, 12:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	34 min
May 11, 1:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.