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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Louisville, KY

January 3, 2000Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 7:11 PM EST for Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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, 7:11 PM EST (00:11 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hardin County, KY, Meade County, KY

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, 5:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 517 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 723 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLMK 040014
SVRSDF
KYC029-093-163-040045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
711 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BULLITT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SOUTHERN MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 745 PM EST(645 PM CST)

* AT 712 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF GUSTON...OR ABOUT 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MULDRAUGH...VINE GROVE AROUND 720 PM EST
  WEST POINT AROUND 725 PM EST

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY DAMAGING WINDS.
IF YOU ARE IN THIS STORM'S PATH...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE 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.

JA/TF

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 Jan 3, 3:15 PM EST, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 3:15 PM EST, 3 hours 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
315 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000

WILL ISSUE AFTERNOON ZONE PACKAGE SHORTLY AFTER 3:00 PM SO WE CAN
INCORPORATE NEW WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON TRACKING THE SURFACE LOW FROM
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS TO THE GREAT LAKES BY 12Z. SEVERE WEATHER
CURRENTLY OCCURRING ALONG THE WARM FRONT OVER OUR COUNTY FORECAST
AREA WITH LARGE HAIL... HIGH WINDS AND POSSIBLY A FEW TORNADOS.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING IN THE WARM SECTOR
BETWEEN THE WARM FRONT AND COLD FRONT.

STORMS WILL DIMINISH OVERNIGHT AS A DRY SLOT MOVES INTO THE AREA.
THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS LOUISVILLE AROUND 12Z TUESDAY.
TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY DROP THROUGH THE DAY. A FEW SHOWERS WILL
BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY MOURNING WITH SOME LIGHT SNOW OR FLURRIES
POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON.

CLEARING SKIES TUESDAY NIGHT WITH MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES ON WEDNESDAY.

GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK& GOOD.

.SDF...NONE.
JA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 7:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	34 min
Jan 3, 7:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	22 min
Jan 3, 7:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby, Spencer	32 min
Jan 3, 7:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	30 min
Jan 3, 7:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	37 min
Jan 3, 9:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart, Larue	44 min
Jan 3, 9:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Nelson	49 min
Jan 3, 9:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Simpson, Warren	49 min
Jan 3, 10:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	34 min
Jan 3, 10:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	29 min
Jan 3, 10:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	29 min
Jan 3, 10:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland	32 min
Jan 3, 11:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Russell	34 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.