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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Louisville, KY

November 9, 2000Harrison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 4:20 PM EST for Harrison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 15 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: Nov 9, 2000, 4:20 PM EST (21:20 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 4:35 PM EST
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Harrison County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 092121
TORSDF

KYC097-092135-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HARRISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 435 PM EST

* AT 417 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS FROM BERRY TO COLVILLE...OR FROM
  35 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON TO 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

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
AVAILABvLE...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.

FUNK

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, 3:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Woodford	13 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.