Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 3:21 PM EST for Grant County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 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, 3:21 PM EST (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 4:05 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 3:31 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Dry Ridge, KY | Trees and large limbs downed. |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILN 032019 SVRILN KYC081-032105- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 321 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY. * UNTIL 405 PM EST * AT 320 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF WILLIAMSTOWN... MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FOLSOM AT 323 PM EST . MT ZION AT 328 PM EST . DRY RIDGE AT 331 PM EST . WILLIAMSTOWN AT 333 PM EST . GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECnT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. .END/BC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.