Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2000, 9:55 PM EDT for Henry County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 9, 2000, 9:55 PM EDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, KY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLMK 100156 TORSDF KYC103-100230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 955 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 954 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER NEW CASTLE...OR ABOUT 36 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BETHLEHEM...LOCKPORT AROUND 1030 PM EDT 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. COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Trimble | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Woodford | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 10:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Fayette | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 11:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 11:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 12:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 12:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 12:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 28 min |
| Aug 10, 2:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 3:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Metcalfe | 26 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.