Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 712
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 27, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT for 9 counties in Illinois; 9 counties in Indiana; 22 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Pope County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 2:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Warren | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Ohio | 14 min |
| Aug 27, 4:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gibson | 119 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 34 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 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.