Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 2000

Tornado Watch 329

May 23, 20004 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 60 counties

Alexander County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Crawford County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	27 min
May 23, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	58 min
May 23, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	59 min
May 23, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, Marshall	55 min
May 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Marshall	42 min
May 23, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Trigg	42 min
May 23, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway	24 min
May 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway	30 min
May 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	75 min
May 23, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger	51 min
May 23, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	58 min
May 23, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh, Warrick	42 min
May 23, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	47 min
May 23, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	53 min
May 23, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott, Stoddard	57 min
May 23, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	63 min
May 23, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott, Stoddard	43 min
May 23, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	31 min
May 23, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	81 min
May 23, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	77 min
May 23, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott	71 min
May 23, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Union	43 min
May 23, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin, Pope	30 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
May 23, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alexander, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and 1 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, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland and 11 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

Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2000 Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2000 Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2000 Every tornado 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.