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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

August 2, 2024Clark County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2024, 7:26 PM EDT for Clark County, Kentucky. It was in force for 19 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 2, 2024, 7:26 PM EDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2024, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Clark County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 292 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: 1548 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 961 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

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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 1, 8:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	33 min
Aug 2, 2:19 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Ohio	3 hr
Aug 2, 5:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	37 min
Aug 2, 5:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	48 min
Aug 2, 6:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	41 min
Aug 2, 6:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	25 min
Aug 2, 6:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	17 min
Aug 2, 7:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson, Spencer, Washington	28 min
Aug 2, 7:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Marion, Mercer, Washington	35 min
Aug 2, 7:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	29 min
Aug 2, 8:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln	30 min
Aug 2, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	37 min
Aug 2, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	37 min
Aug 2, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	28 min
Aug 2, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	31 min
Aug 2, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson	35 min
Aug 2, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson	27 min
Aug 2, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jessamine	23 min
Aug 2, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	23 min
Aug 2, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jessamine	34 min
Aug 2, 7:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Scott, Woodford	3 hr
Aug 2, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	20 min
Aug 2, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	18 min

Nearby

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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.