Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2000, 2:53 PM EDT for Letcher County, Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 67 min. 4 reports 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
- May 19, 2000, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Letcher County, KY, Pike County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Carcassonne, KY | |
| May 19, 3:10 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Colson, KY | |
| May 19, 3:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Deane, KY | |
| May 19, 3:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Phelps, KY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
579 WUUS53 KJKL 191853 SVRJKL KYC133-195-192000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 253 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY LETCHER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 253 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CARBON GLOW...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITESBURG...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LUCASTOWN AT 300 PM EDT CRAFTSVILLE AT 305 PM EDT FLEMING-NEON AT 310 PM EDT VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN JACKSON KY. GREIF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Perry | 62 min |
| May 19, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 61 min |
| May 19, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 66 min |
| May 19, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 59 min |
| May 19, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 55 min |
| May 19, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin | 60 min |
| May 19, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Perry | 56 min |
| May 19, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 57 min |
| May 19, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 54 min |
| May 19, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 27 min |
| May 19, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.