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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Louisville, KY

May 23, 2000Breckinridge County, Grayson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 1:37 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Grayson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports 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 23, 2000, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2000, 2:05 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Breckinridge County, KY, Grayson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 23, 1:50 PM CDTHail 1.75Hudson, KYHail was also reported at Madrid and at Rough River Lake.
May 23, 2:00 PM CDTTornado F3Leitchfield, KYA storm survey was done by NWS personnel on Wednesday May 24. The survey found severe damage to residential and industrial structures. Three vortices combined into a single tornado north of Leitchfield, then moved east to southeast at 40 to 45 mph. The path mo

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 23, 10:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 232 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

530 
WFUS53 KLMK 231838
TORSDF
KYC027-085-231905-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
137 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  NORTHERN GRAYSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 205 PM CDT

* AT 134 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2
  MILES EAST OF GLEN DEAN...OR ABOUT 46 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING
  GREEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MCDANIELS AROUND 145 PM CDT
  MADRID...SHORT CREEK AROUND 150 PM CDT
  LEITCHFIELD AROUND 205 PM CDT

MARIEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 9:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHancock, Ohio21 min
May 23, 9:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge23 min
May 23, 9:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOhio29 min
May 23, 9:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge33 min
May 23, 10:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGrayson43 min
May 23, 10:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEdmonson28 min
May 23, 10:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHart45 min
May 23, 11:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren, Metcalfe44 min
May 23, 11:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen, Hart50 min
May 23, 11:55 AM CDTTornado WarningLMKMetcalfe25 min
May 23, 12:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMetcalfe38 min
May 23, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren, Edmonson35 min
May 23, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMetcalfe25 min
May 23, 12:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKCumberland30 min
May 23, 12:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge, Hancock48 min
May 23, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren16 min
May 23, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin64 min
May 23, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClinton, Cumberland39 min
May 23, 1:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge21 min
May 23, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKGrayson32 min
May 23, 2:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKHart43 min
May 23, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin34 min
May 23, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLarue34 min
May 23, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen, Taylor35 min
May 23, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKAdair41 min
May 23, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKRussell37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.