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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

August 7, 2023Clinton County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2023, 9:49 AM CDT for Clinton County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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: Aug 7, 2023, 9:49 AM CDT (14:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2023, 10:15 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Clinton County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:51 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 1827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.8
Supercell composite: 16.6

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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 Aug 7, 9:10 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 9:10 AM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 2:05 AM CDT, 7 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 6:09 AM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 6:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 8:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 9:04 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 9:49 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
Aug 7, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	29 min
Aug 7, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	45 min
Aug 7, 12:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Trimble	36 min
Aug 7, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer	42 min
Aug 7, 1:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	36 min
Aug 7, 2:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	47 min
Aug 7, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	29 min
Aug 7, 3:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby	36 min
Aug 7, 3:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	31 min
Aug 7, 4:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Shelby	32 min
Aug 7, 4:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Scott	23 min
Aug 7, 10:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Scott	46 min
Aug 7, 10:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	36 min
Aug 7, 10:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Scott	32 min
Aug 7, 11:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	25 min
Aug 7, 11:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	45 min
Aug 7, 11:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Scott	33 min
Aug 7, 11:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark, Fayette	38 min
Aug 7, 11:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	52 min
Aug 7, 11:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	2 hr
Aug 7, 12:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette	34 min
Aug 6, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange	41 min
Aug 6, 11:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	27 min
Aug 6, 11:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	23 min
Aug 7, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington	47 min
Aug 7, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Perry	30 min
Aug 7, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Harrison	33 min
Aug 7, 2:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Harrison	23 min
Aug 7, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Washington	24 min
Aug 7, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Floyd	45 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.