Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 325
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2000, 10:15 AM CDT for 37 counties in Kentucky; 36 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2000, 10:15 AM CDT (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 73 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:18 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.
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 28 min |
| May 23, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 45 min |
| May 23, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 44 min |
| May 23, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart | 50 min |
| May 23, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 25 min |
| May 23, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 38 min |
| May 23, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson | 35 min |
| May 23, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 25 min |
| May 23, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 30 min |
| May 23, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 48 min |
| May 23, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 16 min |
| May 23, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 64 min |
| May 23, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 39 min |
| May 23, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay | 34 min |
| May 23, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 28 min |
| May 23, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 21 min |
| May 23, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Grayson | 32 min |
| May 23, 2:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 43 min |
| May 23, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 34 min |
| May 23, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 34 min |
| May 23, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Clinton, Harlan, Knox, McCreary, Wayne and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 52 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd | 5 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.