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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Louisville, KY

May 23, 2000Metcalfe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2000, 12:50 PM CDT for Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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: May 23, 2000, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Metcalfe County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 23, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

591 
WUUS53 KLMK 231751
SVRSDF
KYC169-231815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1250 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  METCALFE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 115 PM CDT

* AT 1247 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER KNOB LICK...OR ABOUT 41
  MILES EAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GASCON AROUND 1255 PM CDT

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

RNK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 9:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	21 min
May 23, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	23 min
May 23, 9:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	29 min
May 23, 9:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	33 min
May 23, 10:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	43 min
May 23, 10:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	28 min
May 23, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	45 min
May 23, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	44 min
May 23, 11:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	50 min
May 23, 11:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	25 min
May 23, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	38 min
May 23, 12:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson	35 min
May 23, 12:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Cumberland	30 min
May 23, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	48 min
May 23, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	16 min
May 23, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	64 min
May 23, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	39 min
May 23, 1:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson	28 min
May 23, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	21 min
May 23, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Grayson	32 min
May 23, 2:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hart	43 min
May 23, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	34 min
May 23, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	34 min
May 23, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	35 min
May 23, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair	41 min
May 23, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Russell	37 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.