Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 257
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 9, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT for 9 counties in Indiana; 36 counties in Kentucky; 31 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 76 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Washington County, IN, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Christian County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Marion County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 33 min |
| May 9, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 27 min |
| May 9, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson | 31 min |
| May 9, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 30 min |
| May 9, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 27 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 1048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1118 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2000Every 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.