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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Louisville, KY
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 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.
- 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
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.
STUREYIn 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 22 min |
| Feb 18, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 17 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.