Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 4:24 PM CDT for Adair County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 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, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 5:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adair County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Coburg, KY | |
| May 23, 4:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Columbia, KY | Numerous trees were downed. |
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 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 23, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
843 WFUS53 KLMK 232126 TORSDF KYC001-232205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 424 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ADAIR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 505 PM CDT * AT 422 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CANE VALLEY...OR ABOUT 38 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MILLTOWN AROUND 432 PM CDT COLUMBIA AROUND 437 PM CDT GLENS FORK AROUND 440 PM CDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...SMALL ROOM OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. MARIEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 21 min |
| May 23, 9:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 23 min |
| May 23, 9:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 29 min |
| May 23, 9:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 33 min |
| May 23, 10:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 43 min |
| May 23, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 28 min |
| May 23, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 45 min |
| May 23, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 44 min |
| May 23, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart | 50 min |
| May 23, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 25 min |
| May 23, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 38 min |
| May 23, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson | 35 min |
| May 23, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 25 min |
| May 23, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 30 min |
| May 23, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 48 min |
| May 23, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 16 min |
| May 23, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 64 min |
| May 23, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 39 min |
| May 23, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 28 min |
| May 23, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 21 min |
| May 23, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Grayson | 32 min |
| May 23, 2:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 43 min |
| May 23, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 34 min |
| May 23, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 34 min |
| May 23, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 35 min |
| May 23, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Russell | 37 min |
Nearby
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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.