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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Louisville, KY

April 20, 2000Mercer County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 6:56 PM EDT for Mercer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2000, 7:25 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Mercer County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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, 7:05 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Dugansville, KY	Two vortices were spotted near Tablow on the Washington/Mercer County line. The tornadoes destroyed a barn, and damaged a house and a garage near Tablow. One half mile east of Tablow along Highway 926, a house deck was destroyed, a large tree was uprooted, and
Apr 20, 7:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Terrapin, KY	Unspecified major damage was reported just north of Terrapin on Highway 1160.

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 202257
TORSDF
KYC167-202325-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
656 PM EDT THU APR 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 725 PM EDT

* AT 655 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR CARDWELL IN NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY...WHICH IS 30
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BONDVILLE...KIRKWOOD BY 710 PM EDT
  SALVISA BY 715 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, 6:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Washington	17 min
Apr 20, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	36 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

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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.