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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY

April 20, 2000Fayette County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Fayette County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 20, 7:53 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 M	Lexington, KY	Downed trees were across roads. NWS spotters reported 60 mph winds at Lexington.

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, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 202329
TORSDF
KYC067-210000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FAYETTE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 730 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN LEXINGTON... MOVING
  EAST DAT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LEXINGTON IMMEDIATELY
  PRICETOWN BY 745 PM EDT

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.

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, 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, 7:35 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.