Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 5:16 PM CST for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 5:16 PM CST (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Breckinridge County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 5:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Garfield, KY | Several power poles were down south of US Highway 60. |
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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Feb 13, 3:01 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 3:01 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 PM EST SUN FEB 13 2000 MODELS IN OVERALL GOOD AGREEMENT IN HANDLING OF STORM SYSTEM FCST TO MOVE NEWD ACROSS LOWER OH VLY TNGT. HWVR...MESOSCALE DETAILS AND PRECIP AND TSTM EVOLUTION CREATES SHORT TERM FCST PROBLEMS. CURRENTLY...SFC OBS AND MSAS DATA SHOW E-W WARM FRT BECOMING BETTER DEFINED ACRS CNTRL KY. INITIAL AREA OF PRECIP NOW IS ELEVATED NORTH OF FNT ALG AND N OF OH RVR. LATEST RUC HAS NICE HANDLE ON PRECIP PTRN AT THIS TIME. JUST S OF BNDRY...TEMPS AT 19 UTC HV RISEN TO ARND 60 IN S-C KY WITH DEWPTS IN MID 50S. SFC BASED LI VALUES HAVE BEEN DECRSG IN RESPONSE. AT SAME TIME WTR VPR IMAGERY SHOWS DARKENING/SINKING INTO BASE OF UPR TROF ACRS SRN PLAINS INDICATIVE OF RESPONSIVE INCRSG ASCENT DOWNWIND. VIS IMAGERY SHOWS CNVCTN DEVELOPING ACRS LWR MS VLY TO SRN IL WITHIN THIS ASCENT REGION AND AREA OF INSTBLTY. MODEL DATA ALSO INDICATE THAT IMPRESSIVE ANTICYCLONICALLY CURVED RT ENTRANCE RGN OF JET STREAK WILL BE FAVORABLY POSITIONED TO ENHANCE UPR LVL DIVERGENCE ACRS KY THIS EVNG. LO-LVL AGEO WINDS RESPOND TO UPR JET WITH INCRSLY SLY FLOW. THUS... AS SHORTWAVE MOVS ENEWD...EXPECT SHWRS/TSTMS TO AGN INCRS IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY TO OUR WEST THEN SPREAD RAPIDLY NEWD INTO CNTRL KY THIS EVNG. CONSIDERED ISSUING FFA...BUT WL NOT ISSUE AT THIS TIME DESPITE EXPCTD HVY RAIN POTNL...AS RAIN THIS MRNG WAS NOT LONG LASTING AND PRECIP TNGT...WHILE HVYT AT TIMES...SHLD ALSO MOVE AT FAST ENOUGH SPEED TO PRECLUDE WIDESPREAD VERY HEAVY RAIN AMTS. LOOKS LIKE S-C KY CERTAINLY STILL IN THREAT FOR SVR GIVEN DESTABILIZATION IN BNDRY LYR CURRENTLY UNDERWAY. DIFFICULT TO TELL HOW FAR N SVR THREAT WL BE...PROBABLY NOT MUCH FARTHER N THAN OH RVR GIVEN XPCTD WARM FNTRL POSN AND SFC LOW TRACK. NEVERTHELESS... ELEVATED CNVCTN STILL LIKELY N OF BNDRY TNGT. ONCE SYSTEM MOVS BY TNGT...TIME HT CROSS SECTIONS ALL SHOW RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL MSTR THRU MUCH OF MONDAY. THUS WL KEEP A CLDY SKY AND SCT LGT SHWRS OR SPRINKLES DESPITE PASSAGE OF DEEPER-LAYERED MSTR (ESPCLY N-C AND E-C KY AND S-C IN). LOOKS LIKE GRADUAL CLRG WL OCR LATE MONDAY AFTN ACRS SWRN PART OF CWA AND ACRS REST OF AREA MONDAY NGT AS SFC RIDGE BUILDS EWD. THEN ZONAL FLOW AND RENEWED WARM ADVCTN PTRN WL BRING SOME MID OR HI CLDS BACK INTO AREA ON TUES...THUS WL GO PT SNY. FWC/FAN TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE OVERALL. .SDF...NONE. FUNK
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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.