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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 2021Hardin County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2021, 2:43 PM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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 13, 2021, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2021, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

County Hardin County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.

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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: 1410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 13, 1:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 10:57 AM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:23 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:43 PM EDT, 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 12, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	25 min
Jun 12, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	32 min
Jun 12, 9:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	32 min
Jun 13, 3:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	25 min
Jun 13, 5:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	37 min
Jun 13, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	37 min
Jun 13, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Scott, Woodford	23 min
Jun 13, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	32 min
Jun 13, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	27 min
Jun 13, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	28 min
Jun 13, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Spencer	25 min
Jun 13, 3:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Scott	36 min
Jun 13, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	31 min
Jun 13, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	38 min
Jun 13, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Scott, Woodford	29 min
Jun 13, 4:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Scott	4 hr
Jun 13, 4:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Fayette, Scott, Woodford	41 min
Jun 13, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	23 min
Jun 13, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	35 min
Jun 13, 5:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Woodford	2 hr
Jun 13, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Metcalfe	26 min
Jun 13, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	25 min
Jun 13, 1:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	28 min
Jun 13, 1:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	28 min
Jun 13, 1:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	31 min
Jun 13, 1:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Dubois	3 hr
Jun 13, 2:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	27 min
Jun 13, 2:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	34 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.