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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

July 6, 2018Russell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2018, 3:12 PM CDT for Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 6, 2018, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2018, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Russell County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 303 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: 702 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 5, 6:55 PM CDT, 20 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 6:55 PM CDT, 20 hours 17 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
Jul 5, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland	24 min
Jul 6, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	30 min
Jul 6, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	29 min
Jul 6, 1:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion, Taylor	37 min
Jul 6, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	50 min
Jul 6, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Taylor	37 min
Jul 6, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Casey	41 min
Jul 6, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue	27 min
Jul 6, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	48 min
Jul 6, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	23 min
Jul 6, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	26 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.