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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

August 1, 2026Lincoln County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2026, 9:22 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 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 1, 2026, 9:22 PM EDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2026, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Hail
0.00 in
Wind
40

County Lincoln County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 229 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2026-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 644 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2026-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
644 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 8:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Scott32 min
Aug 1, 8:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCasey, Lincoln26 min
Aug 1, 8:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Harrison32 min
Aug 1, 8:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKLincoln, Russell26 min
Aug 1, 9:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKNicholas34 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.