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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY

January 3, 2000Dubois County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 4:16 PM EST for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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
Jan 3, 2000, 4:16 PM EST (21:16 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 5:00 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Dubois County, IN

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 3, 12:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 032119
SVRSDF
INC037-032200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
416 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 500 PM EST

* AT 415 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JASPER... MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  IRELAND AND JASPER AT 430 PM EST
  CRYSTAL AND CELESTINE AT 445 PM EST

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CA|N AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

.END/STUREY/FUNK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 1:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPerry25 min
Jan 3, 1:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford27 min
Jan 3, 1:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison42 min
Jan 3, 1:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPerry24 min
Jan 3, 1:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Floyd42 min
Jan 3, 1:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford38 min
Jan 3, 2:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark34 min
Jan 3, 3:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison, Washington39 min
Jan 3, 3:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Scott42 min
Jan 3, 5:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOrange, Washington42 min
Jan 3, 5:11 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKWashington34 min
Jan 3, 5:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKScott33 min
Jan 3, 5:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPerry24 min
Jan 3, 5:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark31 min
Jan 3, 5:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison44 min
Jan 3, 5:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson37 min
Jan 3, 6:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFloyd29 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.