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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2021, 2:21 PM EDT for Fayette County, Scott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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 3, 2021, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2021, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
Counties Fayette County, KY, Scott County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
849
WWUS83 KLMK 031821
SPSLMK
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Louisville KY
221 PM EDT Thu Jun 3 2021
KYZ036-040-041-048-031845-
Scott-Woodford-Fayette-Jessamine-
221 PM EDT Thu Jun 3 2021
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN WOODFORD...
SCOTT...NORTHWESTERN JESSAMINE AND NORTHWESTERN FAYETTE COUNTIES...
At 221 PM EDT, radar indicated strong thunderstorms were located
along a line extending from near Frankfort to near Versailles to 6
miles north of Harrodsburg. Movement was east at 35 mph.
Wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible with these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Lexington, Georgetown, Versailles, Meadowthorpe, Dunbar High School,
Thoroughbred Acres, Cardinal Hill, Northland, Highlands and Fayette
Mall.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may
cause localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3796 8446 3790 8478 3791 8478 3789 8480
3809 8473 3818 8477 3819 8472 3832 8474
3838 8452 3814 8440
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 260DEG 31KT 3825 8481 3810 8473 3785 8485
$$
DMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 12:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Hardin | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Spencer | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 1:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Barren | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Nelson, Spencer | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 1:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 1:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Woodford | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Scott | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Fayette | 17 min |
| Jun 3, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Nicholas | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jessamine | 27 min |
| Jun 3, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Madison | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 9:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Dubois | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 11:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Dubois | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 33 min |
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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.