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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

June 18, 2026Clinton County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2026, 2:21 PM CDT for Clinton 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: Jun 18, 2026, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2026, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Clinton County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 1404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 8.3

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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 Jun 18, 1:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:40 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:44 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:59 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:11 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 2:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:21 PM 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
Jun 18, 2:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Trimble	33 min
Jun 18, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	43 min
Jun 18, 2:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LMK	Trimble	16 min
Jun 18, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	33 min
Jun 18, 2:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Oldham, Trimble	3 hr
Jun 18, 3:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Trimble	4 hr
Jun 18, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	34 min
Jun 18, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Franklin, Harrison, Scott, Shelby and 1 more	29 min
Jun 18, 3:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	19 min
Jun 18, 3:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	5 hr
Jun 18, 3:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade, Oldham, Spencer	35 min
Jun 18, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison and 5 more	45 min
Jun 18, 3:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer	16 min
Jun 18, 4:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Oldham, Scott, Shelby, Trimble	4 hr
Jun 18, 4:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Fayette, Franklin, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Scott and 3 more	4 hr
Jun 18, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Franklin, Jefferson, Nelson, Shelby and 2 more	31 min
Jun 18, 5:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	4 hr
Jun 18, 5:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Franklin, Jefferson, Nelson, Shelby and 2 more	4 hr
Jun 18, 5:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Jessamine and 5 more	4 hr
Jun 18, 6:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade	3 hr
Jun 18, 6:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Spencer, Washington, Woodford	4 hr
Jun 18, 6:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine and 3 more	3 hr
Jun 18, 6:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Garrard, Grayson and 11 more	5 hr
Jun 18, 7:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	6 hr
Jun 18, 7:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clark, Garrard, Madison	7 hr
Jun 18, 7:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson, Washington	30 min
Jun 18, 8:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Boyle, Bullitt, Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer and 3 more	5 hr
Jun 18, 8:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Larue, Lincoln, Madison and 2 more	5 hr
Jun 18, 8:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Casey, Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart and 5 more	5 hr
Jun 18, 9:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison, Marion and 2 more	7 hr
Jun 18, 9:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	51 min
Jun 18, 9:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	28 min
Jun 18, 11:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion, Taylor	28 min
Jun 18, 11:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Larue and 3 more	6 hr
Jun 18, 11:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Green, Hart and 4 more	6 hr
Jun 18, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	45 min
Jun 18, 12:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	5 hr
Jun 18, 12:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Green, Marion, Taylor	3 hr
Jun 18, 1:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Allen, Barren, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland and 10 more	6 hr
Jun 18, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Russell	29 min
Jun 18, 1:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Boyle, Bullitt, Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer and 3 more	5 hr
Jun 18, 1:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Nelson and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 18, 1:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Clark, Garrard, Madison	4 hr
Jun 18, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland, Russell	33 min
Jun 18, 3:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Green, Marion, Taylor	2 hr
Jun 18, 4:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Larue, Lincoln, Madison and 4 more	2 hr
Jun 18, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	37 min
Jun 18, 2:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Orange, Washington	34 min
Jun 18, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington	26 min
Jun 18, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Washington	29 min
Jun 18, 2:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	2 hr
Jun 18, 2:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Dubois, Jefferson, Orange, Scott, Washington	3 hr
Jun 18, 3:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Harrison, Orange, Perry	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kentucky, 2026 Every special weather statement in 2026

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.