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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Louisville, KY

May 12, 2000Dubois County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 11:49 PM EST for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 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: May 12, 2000, 11:49 PM EST (04:49 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 12:15 AM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Dubois County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 12:15 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Jasper, IN	Power lines were downed in Huntingsburg.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 12, 8:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 12, 11:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -342 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.5

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The text

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

767 
WUUS53 KLMK 130451
SVRSDF
INC037-130515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1149 PM EST FRI MAY 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1215 AM EST

* AT 1146 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WITH DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUFF...OR ABOUT 36 MILES
  EAST OF MOUNT CARMEL...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BRETZVILLE...JASPER...MALTERSVILLE AROUND 1155 PM EST
  CELESTINE...ST. ANTHONY AROUND MIDNIGHT EST
  CRYSTAL...CUZCO...DUBOIS...MENTOR AROUND 1205 AM EST

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

DK

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 May 12, 2:30 PM EST, 9 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 2:30 PM EST, 9 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
330 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000

MAIN PROBLEMS THIS FORECAST IS THE AMOUNT OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT AND INTO SATURDAY MORNING.

MODELS SIMILAR IN BRINING FRONT INTO CENTRAL KENTUCKY OVERNIGHT AND
PUSHING IT TO THE EAST ON SATURDAY. AIR AHEAD OF FRONT IS VERY
UNSTABLE BUT LOWER LEVEL CAP HAS KEPT CLOUDS OVER MUCH OF AREA THIS
AFTERNOON AND PREVENTED CONVECTION FROM DEVELOPING. CLOUDS COVER
MUCH OF AREA NORTH TO FRONT WITH SOME SUNSHINE OVER ILLINOIS. IN
ORDER TO GET MUCH IN WAY OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR THIS
MORE UNSTABLE AIR TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO FORECAST AREA. TRIGGER FOR
CONVECTION WILL BE ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER LEVEL JET WITH
DIVERGENCE MOVING OVER FA LATE EVENING AND IN OVERNIGHT HOURS.

WITH THE NIGHTTIME HOURS AND LACK OF HEATING TODAY WORKING AGAINST
WIDESPREAD CONVECTION WILL OPT TO KEEP POPS LITTLE LOWER THAN AVN
AND MORE IN LINE WITH NGM MOS. ETA IS VERY SPOTTY WITH AMOUNT OF
PRECIPITATION BUT DOES SHOW GOOD DIVERGENCE AND UNSTABLE LIFTED
INDICES WHILE NGM NOT QUITE AS UNSTABLE.  TIME SECTIONS FOR BOTH NGM
AND ETA ARE NOT REAL IMPRESSIVE FOR WIDESPREAD CONVECTION.  THIS
ALSO SUPPORTS LOWER POPS.

ON SATURDAY...CLOUDS DECREASE AFTER FRONT MOVES THROUGH WITH DRIER
AND COOLER AIR FOR SUNDAY AND INTO MONDAY. SUNDAY LOOKS A FEW
DEGREES WARMER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT AND RAISED TEMPExRATURES
SLIGHTLY. HAVE ALSO MODIFIED WARMING TREND AND ADDED SOME CLOUDS FOR
EXTENDED.

.SDF...NONE.
SCHOLZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 12:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	33 min
May 13, 12:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	38 min
May 13, 12:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	33 min
May 13, 12:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	42 min
May 13, 12:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	42 min
May 13, 1:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.