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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

June 11, 2021Allen County, Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2021, 9:30 PM CDT for Allen County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 60 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 11, 2021, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2021, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Allen County, KY, Warren County, KY

The radar

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 2123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.1

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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 11, 8:43 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 8:43 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 1:44 PM CDT, 7 hours 46 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Louisville KY
244 PM EDT Fri Jun 11 2021

INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-
070>078-081-082-121845-
Orange-Washington-Scott-Jefferson-Dubois-Crawford-Perry-Harrison-
Floyd-Clark-Hancock-Breckinridge-Meade-Ohio-Grayson-Hardin-Bullitt-
Oldham-Trimble-Henry-Shelby-Franklin-Spencer-Anderson-Woodford-
Fayette-Bourbon-Nicholas-Nelson-Mercer-Jessamine-Larue-Marion-Boyle-
Garrard-Madison-Butler-Edmonson-Hart-Green-Taylor-Casey-Lincoln-
Logan-Warren-Simpson-Allen-Barren-Monroe-Metcalfe-Adair-Russell-
Cumberland-Clinton-
Including the cities of Paoli, Salem, Scottsburg, Madison, Jasper,
English, Tell City, Corydon, New Albany, Jeffersonville, Lewisport,
Hawesville, Hardinsburg, Brandenburg, Hartford, Leitchfield,
Elizabethtown, Shepherdsville, Louisville, La Grange, Bedford,
Milton, New Castle, Shelbyville, Frankfort, Georgetown, Cynthiana,
Taylorsville, Lawrenceburg, Versailles, Lexington, Paris, Carlisle,
Bardstown, Springfield, Harrodsburg, Nicholasville, Winchester,
Hodgenville, Lebanon, Danville, Lancaster, Richmond, Morgantown,
Brownsville, Horse Cave, Greensburg, Campbellsville, Liberty,
Stanford, Russellville, Bowling Green, Franklin, Providence,
Scottsville, Glasgow, Tompkinsville, Edmonton, Columbia, Jamestown,
Burkesville, and Albany
244 PM EDT Fri Jun 11 2021 /144 PM CDT Fri Jun 11 2021/

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of south central
Indiana and Central Kentucky.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms will produce localized
torrential downpours tonight. Isolated flash flooding is possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will be possible through the
weekend. These thunderstorms will be capable of torrential rainfall.
Areas that see repeated thunderstorms over a short time could
experience localized flooding.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are encouraged to report heavy rainfall and flooding.

&&

More information, along with other weather, hydrological and
climate information can be found, at weather.gov/louisville.

CG/13

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 7:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 7:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 8:37 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:30 PM CDT, 0 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 11, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	47 min
Jun 11, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	54 min
Jun 11, 7:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	53 min
Jun 11, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	23 min
Jun 11, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	58 min
Jun 11, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson	28 min
Jun 11, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Warren	35 min
Jun 12, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	36 min
Jun 12, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	29 min
Jun 12, 2:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clark, Madison	3 hr
Jun 12, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison	34 min
Jun 12, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	46 min
Jun 12, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	28 min
Jun 12, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Jessamine, Scott, Woodford	44 min
Jun 12, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	31 min
Jun 12, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Mercer	34 min
Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	3 hr
Jun 12, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	26 min
Jun 12, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	32 min
Jun 12, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Marion	23 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.