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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 13

January 3, 200036 counties in Kentucky; Lawrence County, Ohio; 9 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 3, 2000, 11:15 PM EST for 36 counties in Kentucky; Lawrence County, Ohio; 9 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 3, 2000, 11:15 PM EST (04:15 UTC)
Expired: Jan 4, 2000, 4:00 AM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 46 counties

Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Lawrence County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Wayne County, WV

Warnings issued inside it

2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 11:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Russell	34 min
Jan 4, 12:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Powell	44 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

567 
WWUS9 KMKC 040353
SEL3  
MKC WW 040353
KYZ000-WVZ000-040900-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 13
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1053 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   EASTERN KENTUCKY                           
   WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA                      

EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING FROM 1115 PM UNTIL
400 AM EST.

HAIL TO 1 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70
MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 60 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LONDON KENTUCKY
TO 20 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...  CONTINUE...WW 10...WW 11...WW 12...

DISCUSSION...SQUALL LINE MOVING RAPIDLY EWD ACROSS CENTRAL KY. 
WITH VERY STRONG WINDS AT ALL LEVELS AND MARGINALLY UNSTABLE
AIRMASS...WIND DAMAGE IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH
THE SQUALL LINE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS.


AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT
TO 1 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60
KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 400.  MEAN STORM
MOTION VECTOR 25040.


...HALES

363,0854 383,0825 383,0803 363,0833

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 8:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 44 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.