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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Louisville, KY

May 23, 2000Larue County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2000, 4:26 PM EDT for Larue County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Larue County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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
May 23, 11:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 23, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 23, 3:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.

786 
WUUS53 KLMK 232029
SVRSDF
KYC123-232100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LARUE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 425 PM EDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10
  MILES NORTHWEST OF HODGENVILLE...OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF
  LOUISVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HODGENVILLE AROUND 440 PM EDT
  BUFFALO AROUND 445 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THIS STORMS PATH...TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER LINES.

MARIEN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 23, 4:25 PM EDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 4:25 PM EDT, 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
425 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

MUCH SEVERE WEATHER TODAY...NUMEROUS WARNINGS AND WATCHES.

MORE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN
INDIANA REMAINING IN WARM MOIST AIRMASS THROUGH TONIGHT AND INTO
WEDENSDAY. FRONT TO MOVE THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT BRINGING SOMEWHAT
COOLER AND DRIER AIR TO NORTHERN PART OF FORECAST AREA FOR THURSDAY.

NOT MUCH TIME TO DIGEST GUIDANCE AND WILL GO WITH MOS NUMBERS FOR
NOW.

.SDF...NONE
SCHOLZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 2:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
253 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0250 PM    HUDSON                    KY   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/23/00   BRECKINRIDGE                   REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
                                          ALSO IN MADRID AND
                                          ROUGH RIVER LAKE.

Local storm report, May 23, 3:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
303 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0300 PM    4 N LEITCHFIELD           KY   TORNADO
05/23/00   GRAYSON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 23, 3:30 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
330 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0255 PM    ALBANY                    KY   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/23/00   CLINTON                        REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

0325 PM    PRICEVILLE                KY   TORNADO
05/23/00   HART                           REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
                                          STILL ON GROUND FROM
                                          GRAYSON COUNTY

Local storm report, May 23, 3:55 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
355 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0300 PM    4 N LEITCHFIELD           KY   TORNADO
05/23/00   GRAYSON                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR. FACTORY
                                          DESTROYED. HOMES
                                          DESTROYED. POWER IS
                                          OUT. PHONES ARE OUT.
                                          INJURIES, NUMBER
                                          UNKNOWN. ROADS
                                          IMPASSIBLE.

Local storm report, May 23, 4:14 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
414 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0355 PM    FT KNOX                   KY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/23/00   HARDIN                         REPORTED AT BASE AIRPORT.

Local storm report, May 23, 4:19 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
419 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0418 PM    ELIZABETH TOWN            KY   .75 INCH HAIL
05/23/00   HARDIN                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 10:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	21 min
May 23, 10:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	23 min
May 23, 10:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	29 min
May 23, 10:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	33 min
May 23, 11:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	43 min
May 23, 11:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	28 min
May 23, 11:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	45 min
May 23, 12:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	44 min
May 23, 12:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	50 min
May 23, 12:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	25 min
May 23, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	38 min
May 23, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson	35 min
May 23, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	25 min
May 23, 1:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Cumberland	30 min
May 23, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	48 min
May 23, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	16 min
May 23, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	64 min
May 23, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	39 min
May 23, 2:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson	28 min
May 23, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	21 min
May 23, 3:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Grayson	32 min
May 23, 3:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hart	43 min
May 23, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	34 min
May 23, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	35 min
May 23, 5:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair	41 min
May 23, 5:43 PM EDT	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.