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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY

January 3, 2000Hancock County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 4:18 PM CST for Hancock County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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: Jan 3, 2000, 4:18 PM CST (22:18 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 4:50 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Hancock 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
Jan 3, 11:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jan 3, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 12:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	38 min
Jan 3, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	34 min
Jan 3, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	32 min
Jan 3, 1:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	39 min
Jan 3, 1:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	33 min
Jan 3, 1:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Henry	27 min
Jan 3, 4:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	24 min
Jan 3, 4:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	44 min
Jan 3, 5:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	26 min
Jan 3, 5:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	28 min
Jan 3, 5:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	31 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.