Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 631
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 29, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming 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, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Pickett County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Montgomery, Powell | 39 min |
| Jul 29, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Laurel | 39 min |
| Jul 29, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 39 min |
| Jul 29, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Rowan | 48 min |
| Jul 29, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Wolfe | 42 min |
| Jul 29, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 31 min |
| Jul 29, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 40 min |
| Jul 29, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 48 min |
| Jul 29, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin, Morgan | 39 min |
| Jul 29, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 32 min |
| Jul 29, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 26 min |
| Jul 29, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Martin, Pike | 52 min |
| Jul 29, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 16 min |
| Jul 29, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Jul 29, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 27 min |
| Jul 29, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jul 29, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 51 min |
| Jul 29, 10:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.