Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 1:30 PM CST for Cumberland County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cumberland County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 1:40 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Burkesville, KY | Roofs were ripped from several homes and storage buildings. Several barns were demolished. Part of a roof was ripped off an elementary school. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 325 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
- 148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
436 WFUS53 KLMK 091930 TORSDF KYC057-092015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 130 PM CST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 215 PM CST * AT 128 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF DUBRE TO 11 MILES WEST OF PEYTONSBURG...OR FROM 50 MILES EAST OF BOWLING GREEN TO 54 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MARROWBONE AROUND 135 PM CST BECKS STORE AROUND 145 PM CST BURKESVILLE...PEYTONSBURG AROUND 155 PM CST AMANDAVILLE AROUND 205 PM CST 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 12:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Simpson | 25 min |
| Nov 9, 12:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 33 min |
| Nov 9, 12:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 23 min |
| Nov 9, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 44 min |
| Nov 9, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 44 min |
| Nov 9, 12:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 32 min |
| Nov 9, 12:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Hart | 38 min |
| Nov 9, 12:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Barren | 28 min |
| Nov 9, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 41 min |
| Nov 9, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 47 min |
| Nov 9, 12:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 46 min |
| Nov 9, 1:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe | 57 min |
| Nov 9, 1:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green | 29 min |
| Nov 9, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 39 min |
| Nov 9, 1:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 49 min |
| Nov 9, 1:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 43 min |
| Nov 9, 1:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 39 min |
| Nov 9, 1:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Marion | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Russell | 31 min |
| Nov 9, 1:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 29 min |
| Nov 9, 1:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 21 min |
| Nov 9, 1:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Casey, Lincoln | 37 min |
| Nov 9, 1:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton | 35 min |
| Nov 9, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 2:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer | 26 min |
| Nov 9, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham, Shelby | 37 min |
| Nov 9, 2:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Mercer | 21 min |
| Nov 9, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Trimble | 45 min |
| Nov 9, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 45 min |
| Nov 9, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln | 18 min |
| Nov 9, 2:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Woodford | 13 min |
| Nov 9, 2:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 42 min |
| Nov 9, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 37 min |
| Nov 9, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 37 min |
| Nov 9, 2:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Madison | 14 min |
| Nov 9, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison | 39 min |
| Nov 9, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 32 min |
| Nov 9, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 35 min |
| Nov 9, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark | 16 min |
| Nov 9, 3:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 15 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.