Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT for Fleming County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fleming County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Wallingford, KY | Several trees were blown down across the area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 561 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
382 WFUS53 KJKL 210031 TORJKL KYC069-210100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 830 PM EDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN FLEMING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 830 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER WALLINGFORD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF FLEMINGSBURG. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. 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. $$ GREIF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 63 min |
| Apr 20, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath | 60 min |
| Apr 20, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee | 52 min |
| Apr 20, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 9:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin, Morgan | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 52 min |
| Apr 20, 9:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Morgan | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Whitley | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 10:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 10:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Whitley | 16 min |
| Apr 20, 10:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Perry | 56 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.