Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 410

June 2, 200019 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Ohio; 19 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT for 19 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Ohio; 19 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties

Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWetzel48 min
Jun 2, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis32 min
Jun 2, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam29 min
Jun 2, 8:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane24 min
Jun 2, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCalhoun33 min
Jun 2, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton27 min
Jun 2, 8:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha26 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 183 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
183 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1326 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Campbell, Kenton6 hr
Jun 2, 12:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCMarion, Monongalia6 hr
Jun 2, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Grant, Hampshire, Harrison, Lewis, Marion and 9 more5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.