Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2000, 8:38 PM EDT for Fleming County, Kentucky. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2000, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fleming County, KY
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 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KJKL 100040 TORJKL KYC069-100130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 838 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FLEMING COUNTY IN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 831 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER HILLSBORO...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FLEMINGSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALLINGFORD AT 845 PM EDT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MUSES MILLS AT 850 PM EDT THIS WARNING SERVES TO UPGRADE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED THROUGH 915 PM. 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 100 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3835 8380 3823 8363 3838 8345 3848 8364 INGRAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Martin | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Magoffin | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Morgan | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Perry | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 11:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 12:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox, Laurel, Pulaski, Whitley | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 12:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 12:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 12:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 27 min |
| Aug 10, 12:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.