Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 410
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.
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 24 min |
| Jun 2, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 26 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.
- 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Marion, Monongalia | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Grant, Hampshire, Harrison, Lewis, Marion and 9 more | 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.