Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 5:04 PM CDT for Logan County, Kentucky. 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 24, 2000, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Auburn, KY | A tornado touched down briefly along Liberty Church Road in Auburn. The path length and width are estimated. No damage was done, so the intensity is also an estimate. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
076 WFUS53 KLMK 242204 TORSDF KYC141-242230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 504 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 502 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF EPLEYS STATION...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... AUBURN...SOUTH UNION AROUND 525 PM CDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 32 min |
| May 23, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Green | 28 min |
| May 23, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 27 min |
| May 23, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 23 min |
| May 24, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 27 min |
| May 24, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart | 29 min |
| May 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 23 min |
| May 24, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 34 min |
| May 24, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 33 min |
| May 24, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson | 33 min |
| May 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 28 min |
| May 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 29 min |
| May 24, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Warren | 44 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.