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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY

April 20, 2000Clinton County, Cumberland County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 2000, 6:48 PM CDT for Clinton County, Cumberland County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min. 4 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 CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 6:48 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Kettle, KY	A tree was blown on to a mobile home.
Apr 20, 7:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Countywide, KY	At Shipley, a barn was blown down, a mobile home was damaged, and several trees were downed. Mobile homes were damaged at Albany, and several trees were downed.
Apr 20, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Albany, KY	A piece of scaffolding and a cement mixer pan were moved 50 yards at Ootens Store.
Apr 20, 7:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Burkesville, KY	Several trees were downed along Highway 1351.

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, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 20, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 202348
TORSDF
KYC053-057-210015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
648 PM CDT THU APR 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLINTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SOUTHERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 645 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5
  MILES NORTHWEST OF PEYTONSBURG...OR ABOUT 54 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SOMERSET...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BURKESVILLE AROUND 655 PM CDT
  ALBANY AROUND 710 PM CDT
  CUMBERLAND CITY AROUND 720 PM CDT

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

COX

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	31 min
Apr 20, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson	33 min
Apr 20, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson	27 min
Apr 20, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	27 min
Apr 20, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	37 min
Apr 20, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren	34 min
Apr 20, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	28 min
Apr 20, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	31 min
Apr 20, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	32 min
Apr 20, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Trimble	30 min
Apr 20, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	31 min
Apr 20, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Washington	17 min
Apr 20, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	36 min
Apr 20, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Mercer	29 min
Apr 20, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	31 min
Apr 20, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	35 min
Apr 20, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Fayette	30 min
Apr 20, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	25 min
Apr 20, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	32 min
Apr 20, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon	32 min
Apr 20, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	38 min
Apr 20, 6:55 PM CDT	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.