Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 327
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT for 58 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 23, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 41 min |
| May 23, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Russell | 37 min |
| May 23, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 40 min |
| May 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 32 min |
| May 23, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Green | 28 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, 10:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Clinton, Harlan, Knox, McCreary, Wayne and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:30 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.