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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Louisville, KY

November 9, 2000Woodford County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 3:32 PM EST for Woodford County, Kentucky. It was in force for 13 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: Nov 9, 2000, 3:32 PM EST (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Woodford County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 9, 3:34 PM EST	Tornado F1	Versailles, KY	Two transformer poles about 18 inches thick were snapped off about 10 feet off the ground. Several other poles were shifted in the ground. Near that location, a man reported his truck being lifted about six inches off the ground.
Nov 9, 3:40 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Versailles, KY

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, 3:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 092032
TORSDF

KYC239-092045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
332 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOODFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 327 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS FROM 5 MILES WEST OF MILLVILLE TO
  NONESUCH...OR FROM 25 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON TO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.

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
Nov 9, 1:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson	25 min
Nov 9, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	33 min
Nov 9, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	23 min
Nov 9, 1:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	44 min
Nov 9, 1:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	44 min
Nov 9, 1:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	32 min
Nov 9, 1:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart	38 min
Nov 9, 1:47 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Barren	28 min
Nov 9, 1:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	41 min
Nov 9, 1:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	47 min
Nov 9, 1:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hart	46 min
Nov 9, 2:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	57 min
Nov 9, 2:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	34 min
Nov 9, 2:16 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green	29 min
Nov 9, 2:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	39 min
Nov 9, 2:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	49 min
Nov 9, 2:30 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Cumberland	45 min
Nov 9, 2:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	43 min
Nov 9, 2:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	39 min
Nov 9, 2:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion	34 min
Nov 9, 2:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Russell	31 min
Nov 9, 2:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Washington	29 min
Nov 9, 2:49 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt	21 min
Nov 9, 2:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Lincoln	37 min
Nov 9, 2:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clinton	35 min
Nov 9, 2:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	34 min
Nov 9, 3:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer	26 min
Nov 9, 3:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham, Shelby	37 min
Nov 9, 3:24 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Mercer	21 min
Nov 9, 3:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Trimble	45 min
Nov 9, 3:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	45 min
Nov 9, 3:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln	18 min
Nov 9, 3:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	42 min
Nov 9, 3:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	37 min
Nov 9, 3:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	37 min
Nov 9, 3:51 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Madison	14 min
Nov 9, 3:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison	39 min
Nov 9, 3:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	32 min
Nov 9, 4:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nicholas	35 min
Nov 9, 4:14 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark	16 min
Nov 9, 4:20 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	15 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.