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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Louisville, KY

August 23, 2000Crawford County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2000, 10:46 PM EST for Crawford County, Indiana. It was in force for 59 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 23, 2000, 10:46 PM EST (03:46 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2000, 11:45 PM EST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Crawford County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 23, 10:55 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	English, IN	Trees were blown on to a vehicle.

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 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.

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: 2220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 240348
SVRSDF
INC025-240445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1046 PM EST WED AUG 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 PM EST

* AT 1043 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BROWNSTOWN...OR ABOUT 42 MILES WEST OF
  LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GRANTSBURG AROUND 1055 PM EST
  TEMPLE AROUND 1100 PM EST
  CAREFREE...MARENGO...PILOT KNOB AROUND 1115 PM EST

QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED EARLIER NEAR BROWNSTOWN. THIS 
THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES THE PREVIOUS WARNING THAT WAS IN 
EFFECT.

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

VLD

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 23, 9:25 PM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 9:25 PM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1025 PM EDT WED AUG 23 2000

2ND NIGHT IN A ROW WHERE MCS DVLPMNT EXPECTED UPSTREAM... ACRS PARTS
OF THE THE MO VLY... THEN ROLLING SEWD INTO OUR FCST AREA (FA) OVNGT.

JET STREAK APRCHG MO VLY...WIL SHIFT THRU THE MID OH VLY...PUTTING
AT LEAST WRN FA IN FAVORABLE RGT ENTRANCE RGN. MEANWHILE...VEERING
LLJ (H85) AIMED TWD KY BY THU MRNG. LCL STABILITY PROGRAM SUGGESTS
AXIS OF GREATEST MOIST AND INSTABILITY WRN FA ... AND THAT'S WHERE
WE WILL TRY AND HIT POPS HARDEST OVNGT.

LINGERING PCPN THU MRNG FROM ONGOING CONVECTION...HANDLED WELL IN
CURRENT FCST.

OTHERWISE FCST ON TRACK.

.SDF...NONE.
STUREY

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 23, 10:42 PM EST, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1142 PM EDT WED AUG 23 2000

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

1125 PM    2 NW ENGLISH              IN   1 INCH HAIL
08/23/00   CRAWFORD                       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 23, 10:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange	33 min
Aug 23, 10:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	60 min
Aug 23, 11:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	30 min
Aug 24, 1:25 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois	2 hr

Nearby

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

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.