Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Louisville, KY

Issued

Jul 29, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)

Expired

Jul 29, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT

In force

30 min

Issued by

NWS Louisville, KY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Barren County, KY, Monroe County, KY

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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WUUS53 KLMK 291932
SVRSDF
KYC009-171-292000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
230 PM CDT SAT JUL 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY   
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 229 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF FOUNTAIN RUN...OR ABOUT 29
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AKERSVILLE AROUND 235 PM CDT
  FOUNTAIN RUN AROUND 240 PM CDT
  AUSTIN...GAMALIEL AROUND 245 PM CDT
  FLIPPIN...TRACY AROUND 250 PM CDT
  TOMPKINSVILLE AROUND 255 PM CDT

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL
THIS STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER
LINES.

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

STUREY

NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 29, 2:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
330 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATING BACKING FLO ACRS FA...THIS WILL TEND
TO SLOW TO A CRAWL...EWD MVMNT OF FNTL BNDRY...ATTM FROM ERN IL TO
NW AR. WIDESPREAD SHRA AHD OF MID MSP VLY SHRTWV HAS DIMINISHED IN
COVERAGE/INTENSITY AS IT REACHED OUR CWFA...HOWEVR STORMS HAVE
DEVELOPED WHERE HTG HAS DESTABILIZED THE AMS ACRS SC/SERN FA. A FEW
OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND AND SMALL HAIL...PRIMARILY
SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BOWLING GREEN TO RICHMOND THIS EVENING.

THIS DEEP S/SW FLO REGIME TO CONT THRU THE FCST PD WITH CDFNT LIKELY
REACHING ONLY AS FAR EAST AS WKY...THEREBY KEEPING OUR FA IN AN
UNSETTLED...HI MOIST BNDRY LAYER AMS AS IMPUSLES CONT TO ROTATE ARND
WEAKENING UPR CENTER PROGGED IN IL BY 00Z TUE. AS A RESULT...SCT TO
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS SHUD CONT THRU THE FCST PD.

SDF...NONE.
DK

In the hours before

KYZ039>043-046>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-292200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1143 AM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY GENERALLY
ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BOWLING GREEN TO LEXINGTON.

A SLOW MOVING FRONT WILL REACH KENTUCKY LATE TODAY AND CONTINUE TO
TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS IN MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR. A FEW OF THESE STORMS
MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...IN ADDITION TO SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY
RAIN.

THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OUTLOOK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION ON+ THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATER TODAY.

KIRKPATRICK

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.