Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Paducah, KY

June 14, 2000Daviess County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 8:34 PM CDT for Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 14, 2000, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Daviess County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 8:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Owensboro, KY	Several trees were down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

662 
WUUS53 KPAH 150134
SVRPAH
KYC059-150200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
834 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAVIESS COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 833 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER OWENSBORO...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF
  OWENSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  4 MILES NORTH OF MASONVILLE AT 840 PM CDT
  5 MILES NORTH OF WHITESVILLE AT 855 PM CDT

STRONG AND DAMAGING WIND IS LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE WIND
SUBSIDES OR THE WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 1:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
100 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2000

LATEST REGIONAL 88D LOOP SHOWS SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
BREAKING OUT OVER ENTIRE CWA...SPC MONITORING FOR PSBL WW OVER IL
AND IN ATTM. ONGOING CONVECTION IS IN RESPONSE TO OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES
FROM EARLIER STORMS. 18Z SFC WIND ANALYSIS SHOWS FRONT EXTENDING
FROM SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. MODELS TRY TO KEEP THIS
BOUNDARY WELL WEST OF FA. WITH MAIN FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXPECTED TO
REMAIN WEST AGREE WITH SPC CONFERENCE CALL THAT MOST CONVECTION IN
PAH CWA WILL REMAIN UNORGANIZED...HOWEVER ISOLATED SEVERE...MAINLY
WINDS...PSBLE WITH UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. FREEZING LEVEL VERY
HIGH...AROUND 14K FEET...LARGE HAIL NOT THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE
CULPRIT. IN ADDITION...SOME SPEED SHEAR NOTED IN BNA 12Z SOUNDING
HOWEVER THE SOUNDING WAS UNI-DIRECTIONAL THUS NOT THE MOST FAVORABLE
ENVIRONMENT FOR TORNADIC CELLS.

12Z/WED MODEL RUNS AGREE BEST PRECIP ACTIVITY SHOULD BE THIS EVENING
WHICH GOES ALONG WITH BEST DIURNAL INSTABILITY. THEREFORE WILL
INCLUDE SCATTERED IN TONIGHT ZONE. MAY BE ABLE TO USE JUST EVENING
WORDING IN SEMO AND PARTS OF SIL...WILL MONITOR AND MAKE CALL CLOSER
TO PRESS TIME. WINDS NEVER REALLY GO NORTH THROUGH 60 HOUR VIA ETA
OR 72 HR VIA AVN. FEEL THIS IS RSNBLE SINCE UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE
ROTATES THROUGH LONG WAVE TROUGH AND LIFTS NORTH OF THE FA. THUS...
FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL AFTER 24 HOURS IN RESPONSE TO UPPER LEVEL
RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE SE US. IN ADDITION...MOS GUIDANCE KEEPS
TEMPS AND DEW POINTS HIGH THROUGHOUT THE RUN...THUS NO REAL CHANGE
IN AIR MASS. ANOTHER SHORT WAVE DEVELOPS AND APPROACHES THE AREA
THIS WEEKEND WITH MRF ADVERTISING FROPA ON SUNDAY. GOING FCST
ADDRESSES THIS WELL AND SEE NO CHANGES TO THE AFOREMENTIONED
PARAMETERS.

WITH NO REAL CHANGE IN AIR MASS SEE LITTLE CHANGE IN HIGHS AND LOWS
OTHER THAN CONVECTION INFLUENCES AND AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS.

.PAH...NONE.

HOOPER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

KYZ001>006-142350-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
621 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2000

...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN LIKELY WITH STORMS
MOVING ACROSS EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY...

AT 615 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED
FROM LA CENTER...TO JUST EAST OF BARDWELL AND CLINTON KENTUCKY...
MOVING NORTHEAST BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH.

THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS CARLISLE COUNTY INTO
SOUTHERN MCCRACKEN COUNTY...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SMALL HAIL.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LOCAL WIND GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH...
ALONG WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE HALF TO ONE INCH AN HOUR.

YOU SHOULD SECURE OR BRING IN LOOSE OBJECTS...SUCH AS LAWN
FURNITURE...BEFORE THESE STORMS REACH YOUR AREA.

THESE STORMS SHOULD REACH NEAR WEST PADUCAH...MAYFIELD...WINGO AND
FULTON BY 645 PM.

SMITH

Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:02 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
802 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0640 PM    PADUCAH                   KY   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/14/00   MCCRACKEN

0648 PM    LONE OAK                  KY   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/14/00   MCCRACKEN

0645 PM    LONE OAK                  KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   MCCRACKEN                      LARGE TREES DOWN

0650 PM    MAYFIELD                  KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   GRAVES                         SEVERAL TREES AND LARGE
                                          LIMBS DOWN

0656 PM    MCCUTCHENVILLE            IN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/14/00   VANDERBURGH

0710 PM    SMITHLAND                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   LIVINGSTON                     SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS DOWN

0710 PM    BURNA                     KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   LIVINGSTON                     SEVERAL TREES DOWN

0720 PM    LYNNVILLE                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   WARRICK                        A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN

0715 PM    BOONVILLE                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   WARRICK                        SEVERAL TREES DOWN

0715 PM    CHANDLER                  IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/00   WARRICK                        SEVERAL TREES DOWN

DB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden	31 min
Jun 14, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union, Webster	34 min
Jun 14, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Trigg	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.