Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 5:27 PM CDT for Simpson County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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
- May 24, 2000, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Simpson County, KY, Warren County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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.
640 WFUS53 KLMK 242229 TORSDF KYC213-227-242300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 527 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SIMPSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY SOUTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 521 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO IN AUBURN OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF BOWLING GREEN ...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WOODBURN AROUND 535 PM CDT FRANKLIN AROUND 545 PM CDT GOLD CITY AROUND 550 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. JA
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, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Logan | 26 min |
| May 24, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.