Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 1:18 PM EST for Crawford County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 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, 1:18 PM EST (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, IN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 12:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLMK 031820 SVRSDF INC025-031845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 118 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 145 PM EST * AT 120 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ENGLISH...OR ABOUT 40 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MARENGO...PILOT KNOB...SULPHUR AROUND 125 PM EST LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER LINES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE NOTICE. TF/JA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 1:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 25 min |
| Jan 3, 1:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 42 min |
| Jan 3, 1:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 24 min |
| Jan 3, 1:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 42 min |
| Jan 3, 1:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford | 38 min |
| Jan 3, 2:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 3:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Washington | 39 min |
| Jan 3, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Scott | 42 min |
| Jan 3, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 44 min |
| Jan 3, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 42 min |
| Jan 3, 5:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 33 min |
| Jan 3, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 24 min |
| Jan 3, 5:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 5:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 44 min |
| Jan 3, 5:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 6:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Floyd | 29 min |
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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.