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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

May 28, 2021Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2021, 5:01 PM CDT for Warren 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 28, 2021, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2021, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Warren County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted.

047 
WWUS83 KLMK 282201
SPSLMK

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Louisville KY
501 PM CDT Fri May 28 2021

KYZ061-062-071-282230-
Warren-Edmonson-Butler-
501 PM CDT Fri May 28 2021

...A LINE OF SHOWERS WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL BUTLER...WARREN AND
SOUTHERN EDMONSON COUNTIES...

At 500 PM CDT, radar indicated showers were located along a line
extending from 9 miles west of Brownsville to 7 miles west of
Crestmoor. Movement was east at 30 mph.

Wind gusts to 40 mph are possible with these showers.

Locations impacted include...
Bowling Green, Brownsville, Plum Springs, Crestmoor, Memphis
Junction, Mount Victor, Smiths Grove, Oakland, Roundhill and
Chalybeate.

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

LAT...LON 3702 8666 3726 8647 3715 8608 3683 8632
      3682 8634
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 288DEG 28KT 3720 8645 3701 8660 

$$

JML

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	47 min
May 27, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	48 min
May 28, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	26 min
May 28, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	32 min
May 28, 5:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham, Shelby	35 min
May 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Spencer	31 min
May 28, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin	30 min
May 28, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Woodford	56 min
May 27, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	51 min
May 27, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Orange	48 min
May 27, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	49 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.