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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY

April 20, 2000Bell County, Whitley County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 10:44 PM EDT for Bell County, Whitley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 16 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 2000, 10:44 PM EDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bell County, KY, Whitley County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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.

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 1081 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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

073 
WFUS53 KJKL 210243 COR
TORJKL
KYC013-235-210300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED FOR CODING...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1044 PM EDT THU APR 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WHITLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY   
  BELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 1007 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CONTAINING A POSSIBLE 
TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF   WILKERSON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES 
NORTHEAST OF LA FOLLETTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MIDDLESBORO AT 1015 PM EDT
  BINGHAMTOWN AT 1020 PM EDT
  HUTCH AT 1025 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 MIDNIGHT EDT
FRIDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY.

HEINLEIN

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, 8:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Fleming	30 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, 10:49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.