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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 2000, 8:54 PM EDT for Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 9:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Carter, KY | Trees were blown down at the Carter Caves State Park. |
| Apr 20, 9:27 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Greenup, KY | |
| Apr 20, 9:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Flatwoods, KY | Several large tree branches were broken off, plus a few trees were uprooted |
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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 561 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.