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Special Weather Statement, NWS Louisville, KY

August 16, 2026Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2026, 6:21 PM EDT for Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana. 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: Aug 16, 2026, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

Counties Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 2282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.2

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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 15, 8:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Harrison, Scott	3 hr
Aug 15, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	24 min
Aug 15, 8:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	36 min
Aug 15, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Scott	29 min
Aug 15, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	33 min
Aug 15, 8:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Scott	5 hr
Aug 15, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Scott	21 min
Aug 15, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	32 min
Aug 15, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	33 min
Aug 15, 9:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark, Madison	34 min
Aug 15, 9:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Franklin, Scott	3 hr
Aug 16, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	38 min
Aug 16, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Scott	26 min
Aug 16, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Carroll	30 min
Aug 16, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	31 min
Aug 16, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	27 min
Aug 16, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	35 min
Aug 16, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	29 min
Aug 16, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Fayette	25 min
Aug 16, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	32 min
Aug 16, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby, Spencer	43 min
Aug 16, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	48 min
Aug 16, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	30 min
Aug 16, 7:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Scott	3 hr
Aug 16, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Mercer, Washington	32 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.