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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

July 13, 2021Barren County, Hart County, Larue County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2021, 10:09 AM CDT for Barren County, Hart County, Larue 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: Jul 13, 2021, 10:09 AM CDT (15:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2021, 10:45 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY

Counties Barren County, KY, Hart County, KY, Larue County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 Jul 13, 8:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 8:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 2:58 AM CDT, 7 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:09 AM 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
Jul 12, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	35 min
Jul 12, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	42 min
Jul 12, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	27 min
Jul 12, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	29 min
Jul 13, 10:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren	32 min
Jul 13, 11:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine, Marion, Mercer, Scott, Woodford	34 min
Jul 13, 11:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	2 hr
Jul 13, 12:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Hart	42 min
Jul 13, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren, Monroe	39 min
Jul 13, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin	46 min
Jul 13, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	38 min
Jul 13, 3:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, Warren	2 hr
Jul 13, 4:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	113 min
Jul 13, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Trimble	31 min
Jul 13, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	40 min
Jul 13, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois, Orange	37 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.