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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY

January 3, 2000Oldham County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 2:36 PM EST for Oldham County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 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, 2:36 PM EST (19:36 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 3:15 PM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Oldham 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, 12:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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.

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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLMK 031939
SVRSDF
KYC185-032015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OLDHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 315 PM EST

* AT 235 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
     THUNDERSTORM OVER WATSON ...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST         
     OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BALLARDSVILLE...LA GRANGE AROUND 245 PM EST

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND
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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 1:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	38 min
Jan 3, 2:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	34 min
Jan 3, 2:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	32 min
Jan 3, 2:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	33 min
Jan 3, 2:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Henry	27 min
Jan 3, 5:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hancock	32 min
Jan 3, 5:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	24 min
Jan 3, 5:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	44 min
Jan 3, 6:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	26 min
Jan 3, 6:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	28 min
Jan 3, 6:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	31 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.