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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Louisville, KY

February 18, 2000Lincoln County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2000, 8:58 PM EST for Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 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, 8:58 PM EST (01:58 UTC)
Expired
Feb 18, 2000, 9:15 PM EST
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, KY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 18, 8:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 596 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 190159
TORSDF
KYC137-190215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
858 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 915 PM EST

* AT 900 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO ALONG THE LINCOLN/CASEY LINE...15 MILES NORTH OF
  SOMERSET...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KINGS MOUNTAIN BY 905 PM EST
  BROUGHTENTOWN BY 910 PM EST

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

.END/VLD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 18, 7:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLogan, Warren35 min
Feb 18, 8:48 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKCasey22 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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.