Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 5:07 PM CDT for Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 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 27, 2000, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 27, 5:07 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Gamaliel, KY | Trees were downed. One fell on a mobile home. |
| May 27, 5:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Tompkinsville, KY | Numerous trees were downed across the southern part of the county. |
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 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
023 WFUS53 KLMK 272208 TORSDF KYC171-272230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 507 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 502 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOMPKINSVILLE...OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TOMPKINSVILLE IMMEDIATELY CENTER POINT BY 520 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson | 28 min |
| May 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 48 min |
| May 27, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 49 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.