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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

April 29, 2025Shelby County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Apr 29, 2025, 2:21 PM EDT for Shelby County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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: Apr 29, 2025, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2025, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Shelby County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 357 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 351 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 Apr 29, 1:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 1:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 11:37 AM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 29, 11:02 AM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 11:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 12:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 1:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 1:53 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 2:21 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
Apr 29, 12:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham	45 min
Apr 29, 1:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	44 min
Apr 29, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby	33 min
Apr 29, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	25 min
Apr 29, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Harrison, Scott	40 min
Apr 29, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue	36 min
Apr 29, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Harrison	44 min
Apr 29, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	35 min
Apr 29, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Nicholas	23 min
Apr 29, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin	24 min
Apr 29, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	42 min
Apr 29, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Scott	43 min
Apr 29, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	40 min
Apr 29, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Woodford	24 min
Apr 29, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	36 min
Apr 29, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	33 min
Apr 29, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott, Woodford	38 min
Apr 29, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	45 min
Apr 29, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson	22 min
Apr 29, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer, Woodford	37 min
Apr 29, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Hart	31 min
Apr 29, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Scott	39 min
Apr 29, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	23 min
Apr 29, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Madison	44 min
Apr 29, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	24 min
Apr 29, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	33 min
Apr 29, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	33 min
Apr 29, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	30 min
Apr 29, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Garrard	42 min
Apr 29, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	28 min
Apr 29, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Taylor	23 min
Apr 29, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Taylor	23 min
Apr 29, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe	39 min
Apr 29, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	45 min
Apr 29, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Garrard, Lincoln	41 min
Apr 29, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	47 min
Apr 29, 11:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Orange	28 min
Apr 29, 11:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Washington	30 min
Apr 29, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Harrison	37 min
Apr 29, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	23 min
Apr 29, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	36 min
Apr 29, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	31 min
Apr 29, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	25 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.