Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 332
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT for 23 counties in Kentucky; 23 counties in Tennessee; Lee County, Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, White County, TN, Lee County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson, Union | 26 min |
| May 23, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Jefferson, Knox | 24 min |
| May 23, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Pickett | 29 min |
| May 23, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Hamblen | 27 min |
| May 23, 11:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS9 KMKC 232304 MKC WW 232304 KYZ000-TNZ000-240500- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 332 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 704 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY EASTERN TENNESSEE EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM 715 PM UNTIL 100 AM 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 60 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CROSSVILLE TENNESSEE TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSON 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 326...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 327. WATCH NUMBER 326...327 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 715 PM EDT. CONTINUE...WW 328...WW 329...WW 330...WW 331... DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS REGION OF MODERATE TO HIGH INSTABILITY AND STRONGLY VEERING WIND PROFILE WITH POTENTIAL FOR FURTHER SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT. 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 30035. ...ROGASH ;374,0822 353,0833 353,0854 374,0844;
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 11:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Clinton, Harlan, Knox, McCreary, Wayne and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 52 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:45 PM EDT | 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.