Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT for Washington County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 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
- Apr 20, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 7:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Countywide, KY | Two trailers were completely destroyed west of Willisburg, with one person injured. Several barns were destroyed, and house windows were blown out. |
| Apr 20, 6:55 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Willisburg, KY | The tornado destroyed two mobile homes and a tobacco barn. It also did roof, siding, and chimney damage to several homes, and damaged vehicles. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLMK 202249 TORSDF KYC229-202305- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 648 PM EDT THU APR 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 705 PM EDT * AT 648 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO BETWEEN MOORESVILLE AND WILLISBURG...WHICH IS 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WILLISBURG...BATTLE AND CARDWELL BY 700 PM EDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! .END/TF/VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson | 33 min |
| Apr 20, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson | 27 min |
| Apr 20, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin | 27 min |
| Apr 20, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Apr 20, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 28 min |
| Apr 20, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Trimble | 30 min |
| Apr 20, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 6:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Mercer | 29 min |
| Apr 20, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 35 min |
| Apr 20, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Fayette | 30 min |
| Apr 20, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 25 min |
| Apr 20, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 32 min |
| Apr 20, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 27 min |
| Apr 20, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln | 38 min |
| Apr 20, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.