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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Jackson, KY

August 17, 2000Clay County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 17, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT for Clay County, Kentucky. It was in force for 52 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: Aug 17, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Clay County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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
Aug 17, 6:40 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Big Creek, KY	A brief tornado touch down was reported in the forested area off the Daniel Boone Parkway. Only minimal tree damage resulted from this storm.

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
Aug 17, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 253 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 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 
WFUS53 KJKL 172208
TORJKL

KYC051-172300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
608 PM EDT THU AUG 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLAY COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MANCHESTER

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 607 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER ALGER...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF MANCHESTER...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER AMMIE...3 MILES EAST OF LAUREL CREEK AT 615 PM EDT
  OVER WILD CAT...3 MILES WEST OF ONEIDA...3 MILES EAST OF MILL POND
     AT 620 PM EDT
  OVER TANKSLEY...BARCREEK...HENSLEY AT 625 PM EDT
  OVER SPURLOCK AT 630 PM EDT
  OVER HECTOR AT 635 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR KENTUCKY.

HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 17, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	42 min
Aug 17, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee	52 min
Aug 17, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Owsley	42 min
Aug 17, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson	52 min
Aug 17, 5:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson	38 min
Aug 17, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Owsley	44 min
Aug 17, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	40 min
Aug 17, 6:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Leslie	46 min
Aug 17, 7:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Clay, Leslie	52 min
Aug 17, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.