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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Louisville, KY

February 18, 2000Logan County, Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 18, 2000, 6:05 PM CST for Logan County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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
Feb 18, 2000, 6:05 PM CST (00:05 UTC)
Expired
Feb 18, 2000, 6:40 PM CST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Logan County, KY, Warren County, KY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 18, 4:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 596 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
596 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
715 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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 18, 3:18 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 3:18 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FOR DATE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
325 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000

TRAINING OF SHWRS/TSTMS CONTG THIS EVNG IN FAVORABLE JET STRUCTURE
AND STG LOW LVL CONVG ACRS NRN AND CNTRL KY...ALSO IN PROXIMITY TO
SFC WRMFNT.  WE WILL CONT FFA THIS EVNG FOR MUCH OF CNTRL KY ...AS
MANY AREAS IN A STATE OF FLOOD. JUDGING BY HRLY MESO DATA...SRN KY
LOOKS RIPE FOR SVR WX...SO WILL WORD ACCORDINGLY AS CDFNT SWEEPS
THRU.

LOW CLOUDS THEN TO WRAP INTO MUCH OF FA TNGT & LAST THRU SAT NITE
...ALONG WITH SOME SPOTTY FLRYS/DRZL...IN MOIST CYCLONIC FLOW.

MORE ANTICYCLONIC FLOW SUNDAY...SO WILL BREAK CLDS THEN.

NO BIG QUIBBLE WITH TEMP GUIDE.

.SDF...FLASH FLOODD WATCH THIS EVENING ACROSS ALL OF OUR SOUTH-
       CENTRAL INDIANA COUNTIES...AND MUCH OF CNTRL KY.

STUREY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 18, 4:41 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
541 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

0540 PM    LOUISVILLE                KY   FLOOD
02/18/00   JEFFERSON                      NUMEROUS CARS STRANDED
                                          IN FLOODED ROADWAYS AND
                                          UNDERPASSES. REPORTEDF
                                          BY STORM SPOTTER.
Local storm report, Feb 18, 4:54 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
554 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

0505 PM    LOUISVILLE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
02/18/00   JEFFERSON                      POWER LINES DOWN. .
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
X
0530 PM    LOUISVILLE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
02/18/00   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
Local storm report, Feb 18, 4:57 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
557 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....`

0430 PM    DEPAUW                    IN   WIND DAMAGE
02/18/00   HARRISON                       TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
Local storm report, Feb 18, 5:08 PM CST, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
608 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

0605 PM    ELMBURG                   KY   FLOOD
02/18/00   SHELBY                         2 TO 4 FEET OF WATER
                                          OVER ROADWAY 43 .
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0605 PM    CRESTWOOD                 KY   FLOOD
02/18/00   OLDHAM                         4.05 INCHES SINCE 600
                                          AM EST. 5.0 INCHES
                          r                STORM TOTAL. NUMEROUS
                                          ROADS CLOSED. REPORTED
                                          BY STORM SPOTTER.
Local storm report, Feb 18, 5:15 PM CST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
615 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

0600 PM    4 E SHELBYVILLE           KY   .75 INCH HAIL
02/18/00   SHELBY

0610 PM    MT WASHINGTON             KY   FLOOD
02/18/00   BULLITT                        NUMEROUS ROADS UNDER
                                          WATER. REP~ORTED BY
                                          OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE.
Local storm report, Feb 18, 5:39 PM CST, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
639 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000

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

0630 PM    TAYLORSVILLE              KY   FLOOD
02/18/00   SPENCER                        WATER OVER TWO SEPERATE
                                          ROADWAYS . REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 18, 7:48 PM CSTTornado WarningLMKCasey22 min
Feb 18, 7:58 PM CSTTornado WarningLMKLincoln17 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.