Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 4:24 PM EDT for Boyle County, Casey County, Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2000, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boyle County, KY, Casey County, KY, Lincoln County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Dunnville, KY |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLMK 082025 SVRSDF KYC021-045-137-082100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 424 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BOYLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY NORTHERN CASEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 425 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PARKSVILLE TO ELLISBURG...OR FROM 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON TO 33 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET...MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ELLISBURG AROUND 430 PM EDT DANVILLE...HUSTONVILLE...JUNCTION CITY...MORELAND AROUND 440 PM EDT MCKINNEY...MT. SALEM AROUND 445 PM EDT STANFORD AROUND 450 PM EDT ROWLAND AROUND 455 PM EDT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER LINES. TWF
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 Aug 8, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 310 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000 MESO BNDRY ACRS S-CNTRL INDIANA HAS FINALLY BROKEN DOWN ... AS SHWRS/ TSTMS NOW DRIFTG SEWD INTO UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACRS CNTRL KY. THIS SHUD BE THE TREND THIS EVNG...WITH MORE TSTMS DVLPG FURTHER S...WHERE LI'S RUNNING -8 TO -9 AND CAPES 3-4K J/KG. MEANWHILE...VEERING H85 LLJ SHUD HELP PROMOTE MORE TSTMS UPSTREAM LTR ...WHICH WILL ROLL INTO SRN IND/ NRN KY SOMETIME AFTER MIDNIGHT. HVY RAIN HAS FALLEN LAST 2 DAYS IN S-CNTRL IND...AND WITH FFG GUIDE VALUES VERY LOW...WE WILL CONTINUE THE FFA TNGT WITH THE EMPHASIS ON LTR TNGT. OTHERWISE...SERIES OF S/W'S (AND INDUCED CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES) WILL ROLL NEAR OR THRU OUR FA WED AND WED NITE. THIS WILL KEEP UNSETTLED WX CONDS GOING THAT PD. CDFNT STILL NORTH OF THE OHIO RVR ON THU...COMBINED WITH EXTREME INSTABILITY...IS EXPECTED TO GENERATE MORE SCT STORMS ON THU. AGAIN MAX TEMPS HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON CLD COVER AND AGAIN SHAVED TEMPS IN THE NORTH FOR WED. .SDF...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TNGT S-CNTRL INDIANA AND TRIMBLE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY STUREY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 8, 4:09 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
409 PM EDT TUE AUG 08 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0318 PM BARDSTOWN KY 1 INCH HAIL
08/08/00 NELSON REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0325 PM BARDSTOWN KY WIND DAMAGE
08/08/00 NELSON TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0400 PM NEVADA KY WIND DAMAGE
08/08/00 MERCER TREES DOWN. ROUTE 68
BLOCKED EAST AND WEST.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 18 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.