Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:21 PM CST for Christian County, Hopkins County, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:21 PM CST (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Christian County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Drakesboro, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
979
WUUS53 KPAH 032322
SVRPAH
KYC047-107-177-040000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
521 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MUHLENBERG COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
HOPKINS COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 600 PM CST
* AT 521 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF DAWSON SPRINGS...MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
OVER GREENVILLE...4 MILES SOUTH OF POWDERLY...8 MILES SOUTH OF
CENTRAL CITY AT 605 PM CST
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PADUCAH.
LAT...LON 3728 8764 3689 8759 3708 8725 3706 8702
3730 8701
PSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 10:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 11:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 12:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 2:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | McCracken | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 3:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson | 110 min |
| Jan 3, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Webster | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 3:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 118 min |
| Jan 3, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 33 min |
| Jan 3, 5:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | McLean | 21 min |
| Jan 3, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 5 more | 2 hr |
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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.