Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 7
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 3, 2000, 2:45 PM EST for Dearborn County, Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana; 37 counties in Kentucky; 18 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 2:45 PM EST (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Madison County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 33 min |
| Jan 3, 2:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 40 min |
| Jan 3, 3:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant | 44 min |
| Jan 3, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 5:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 6:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 45 min |
| Jan 3, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ohio | 47 min |
| Jan 3, 6:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 6:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen, Pendleton | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fayette, Madison, Pickaway | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 7:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 30 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
832 WWUS9 KMKC 031915 SEL7 MKC WW 031915 INZ000-KYZ000-OHZ000-040100- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 7 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 115 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA NORTHERN KENTUCKY SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL OHIO EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 145 PM UNTIL 700 PM CST. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 65 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON KENTUCKY TO 70 MILES NORTHEAST OF CINCINNATI OHIO. 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 4...WW 5...WW 6... DISCUSSION...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH SEVERAL BOW ECHO SIGNATURES CONTINUE TO MOVE RAPDILY NEWD ACROSS N CENTRAL IN. VERY STRONG VERTICAL SHEAR PROFILES INDICATE THE THREAT OF ISOLATED TORNADOES AS AIR MASS CONTINUES TO DESTABILIZE. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24050. ...MCCARTHY 373,0854 394,0844 394,0821 373,0832
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 12:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Spencer | 5 hr |
| Jan 3, 8:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 6 more | 6 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.