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Tornado Watch 328

May 23, 200017 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Casey County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hart County, KY, Larue County, KY, Marion County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	34 min
May 23, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	35 min
May 23, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair	41 min
May 23, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	32 min
May 23, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green	28 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WWUS9 KMKC 231923
MKC WW 231923
KYZ000-240100-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 328
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
323 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

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

   SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY                           

EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 330 PM UNTIL 900
PM EDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 45 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY TO 65
MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN 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...  CONTINUE...WW 325...WW 326...WW 327...

DISCUSSION...SUPERCELL HAS DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL KY ALONG WARM
FRONT/OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. IT SHOULD PROPAGATE SEWD INTO SRN KY WITH
A CONTINUED THREAT FOR TORNADOES.


AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 30030.


...VESCIO

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 9 more	5 hr
May 23, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 31 more	6 hr
May 23, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Clinton, Harlan, Knox, McCreary, Wayne and 1 more	5 hr
May 23, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 52 more	6 hr
May 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 22 more	6 hr
May 23, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 17 more	6 hr
May 23, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boyd	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.