Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 17, 2000, 5:52 PM EDT for Jackson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 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 17, 2000, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jackson County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KJKL 172153 TORJKL KYC109-172230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 552 PM EDT THU AUG 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCKEE * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 546 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SAND SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF MCKEE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER LAKES AT 600 PM EDT OVER TURKEY FOOT...NEW ZION AT 605 PM EDT DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. 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. LAT...LON 3757 8397 3752 8413 3729 8394 3736 8383 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, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.