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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 582

July 14, 200025 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Virginia; 8 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT for 25 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Virginia; 8 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties

Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMorgan44 min
Jul 14, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWolfe40 min
Jul 14, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMorgan49 min
Jul 14, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Magoffin51 min
Jul 14, 7:10 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLMorgan20 min
Jul 14, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLee43 min
Jul 14, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLKnott, Magoffin38 min
Jul 14, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLEstill47 min
Jul 14, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln32 min
Jul 14, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone33 min
Jul 14, 8:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLeslie, Perry41 min
Jul 14, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson49 min
Jul 14, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLetcher39 min
Jul 14, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLeslie52 min
Jul 14, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay46 min
Jul 14, 9:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLHarlan43 min
Jul 14, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRXWise, City of Norton41 min
Jul 14, 9:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBell, Clay, Knox50 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 2000-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 203 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 2000-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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
Jul 14, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle and 31 more6 hr
Jul 14, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 16 more5 hr
Jul 14, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHancock6 hr
Jul 14, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Brooke, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison and 15 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 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.