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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, OH

January 3, 2000Owen County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 3:05 PM EST for Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 3, 2000, 3:05 PM EST (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Owen County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 3, 3:25 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	New Liberty, KY	Trees and large limbs knocked down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 3, 2:45 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 032002
SVRILN
KYC187-032045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
305 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OWEN COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 303 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF OWENTON... MOVING EAST AT 55
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW LIBERTY AT 308 PM EST .
  OWENTON AT 312 PM EST .
  LONG RIDGE AT 315 PM EST .
  LUSBY'S MILL AT 318 PM EST .

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. HSEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

.END/BC

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 3, 2:19 PM EST, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 2:19 PM EST, 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
219 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000

18Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED A WAVE ACROSS ERN IN AND A WARM FNT THAT
HAS PUSHED N OF FA.  BATCH OF SHRA/TSRA PUSHING INTO NWRN FA ATTM.
THIS SHOULD PUSH INTO CVG AND CMH AREAS BY MID PM.  H8 WINDS
INCREASING TO 60 KTS ACCORDING TO THE ETA.  INSTABILITY IS MARGINAL
BUT A FEW BREAKS OVR NRN KY AND S-CNTRL OH SHOULD ADD TO THE HEATING
AND THUS DECREASE THE STABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE.

FCST WL FEATURE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT.  SOME STORMS MAY BE
SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS SO TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CVG-PMH
AND CMH AREAS. HELICITY OFF VWP ABOVE 800 PER CONVERSATION WITH SPC.

SHRA/TSRA WL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AND END BY 12Z CVG-DAY.  WL CARRY A
CHANCE RAIN FOR CMH-PMH IN THE AM.  WL CARRY CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW
ALL AREAS IN PM.  WL CARRY FALLING TEMPS IN ALL ZONES.

.ILN...NONE.

WILKINSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 3:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	44 min
Jan 3, 3:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	27 min
Jan 3, 5:52 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Kenton	4 hr
Jan 3, 6:30 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin	4 hr
Jan 3, 6:47 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Grant, Owen, Pendleton	4 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.