Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 8:48 PM EST for Casey County, Kentucky. It was in force for 22 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
- Feb 18, 2000, 8:48 PM EST (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2000, 9:10 PM EST
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Casey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 596 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 715 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Warren | 35 min |
| Feb 18, 8:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 17 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.