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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

July 1, 2020Franklin County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2020, 5:13 PM EDT for Franklin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 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 1, 2020, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2020, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Franklin County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 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 Jun 30, 7:49 PM EDT, 21 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 7:49 PM EDT, 21 hours 24 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
Jun 30, 8:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson	2 hr
Jun 30, 11:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Jefferson	112 min
Jul 1, 5:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	2 hr
Jul 1, 3:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Mercer	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson, Washington	38 min
Jul 1, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion	41 min
Jul 1, 6:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Jefferson	2 hr
Jul 1, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham	42 min
Jul 1, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	39 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2020 Every special weather statement in 2020

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.