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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

June 12, 2021Nicholas County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2021, 2:09 PM EDT for Nicholas County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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 12, 2021, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2021, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Nicholas County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 656 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 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 12, 1:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 1:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 3:38 AM EDT, 10 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 2:09 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Louisville KY
209 PM EDT Sat Jun 12 2021

KYZ037-042-043-121845-
Bourbon-Nicholas-Harrison-
209 PM EDT Sat Jun 12 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL IN
NORTHERN BOURBON... NORTHWESTERN NICHOLAS AND SOUTHEASTERN HARRISON
COUNTIES...

At 208 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 7 miles east of
Cynthiana, moving south at 15 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Millersburg, Shawhan, Barefoot, Ruddels Mills, Morning Glory,
Headquarters, Hooktown and Colville.

LAT...LON 3845 8418 3843 8409 3825 8410 3829 8429
TIME...MOT...LOC 1808Z 009DEG 13KT 3836 8416

RAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	47 min
Jun 11, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	54 min
Jun 11, 8:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	53 min
Jun 11, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	23 min
Jun 11, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	58 min
Jun 11, 9:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson	28 min
Jun 11, 9:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Warren	35 min
Jun 11, 10:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Warren	60 min
Jun 12, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	29 min
Jun 12, 3:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clark, Madison	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison	34 min
Jun 12, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	46 min
Jun 12, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	28 min
Jun 12, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Jessamine, Scott, Woodford	44 min
Jun 12, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	31 min
Jun 12, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Mercer	34 min
Jun 12, 5:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	3 hr
Jun 12, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	26 min
Jun 12, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	32 min
Jun 12, 6:10 PM EDT	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.