Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 4:43 PM CDT for Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 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 23, 2000, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 5:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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, 5:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Russell Spgs, KY | 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
231 WFUS53 KLMK 232146 TORSDF KYC207-232220- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 443 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 520 PM CDT * AT 442 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF RUSSELL SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 31 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... JAMESTOWN AROUND 455 PM CDT FREEDOM AROUND 505 PM CDT IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE OR IN A MOBILE HOME...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING OR STORM SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW LYING AREA AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 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, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 41 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.