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Tornado Watch 11

January 3, 200050 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 3, 2000, 7:00 PM CST for 50 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 3, 2000, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 4, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 50 counties

Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 7:04 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SDF	Bullitt, Hardin	116 min
Jan 3, 7:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery	60 min
Jan 3, 7:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Morgan, Rowan	55 min
Jan 3, 7:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Wolfe	55 min
Jan 3, 7:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	55 min
Jan 3, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart, Larue	44 min
Jan 3, 8:14 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SDF	Shelby, Spencer	106 min
Jan 3, 8:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Nelson	49 min
Jan 3, 8:33 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SDF	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Oldham	2 hr
Jan 3, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Simpson, Warren	49 min
Jan 3, 8:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	62 min
Jan 3, 9:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	34 min
Jan 3, 9:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	29 min
Jan 3, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	29 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 517 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 723 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

908 
WWUS9 KMKC 040024
SEL1  

SEL1  
MKC WW 040024
KYZ000-040600-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 11
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
624 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   KENTUCKY                           

EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING FROM 700 PM UNTIL
MIDNIGHT CST.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 55 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY
TO 65 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON KENTUCKY.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO WATCH
NUMBER 7...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 9.  WATCH NUMBER 7...9 WILL NOT BE
IN EFFECT AFTER 700 PM CST.  CONTINUE...WW 8...WW 10...

DISCUSSION...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE EWD
ACROSS CENTRAL KY WHERE STRONG VEERING WIND PROFILES REMAIN. 
SUPERCELLS AND ISOLATED TORNADOS WILL BE LIKELY NEXT SEVERAL HOURS
WITH SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY  IN WARM SECTOR.


AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23040.


...HALES

384,0824 363,0853 363,0873 384,0844

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Clinton and 30 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.