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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 688

August 23, 20015 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 23, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 23, 2001, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 139 counties

Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Scott County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Lawrence County, OH, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Raleigh	40 min
Aug 23, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Nicholas	41 min
Aug 23, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	23 min
Aug 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan	35 min
Aug 23, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	31 min
Aug 23, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	43 min
Aug 23, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette	41 min
Aug 23, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	35 min
Aug 23, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Nicholas	29 min
Aug 23, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	39 min
Aug 23, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	39 min
Aug 23, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wyoming	32 min
Aug 23, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	30 min
Aug 23, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Montgomery	37 min
Aug 23, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland	26 min
Aug 23, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Powell	47 min
Aug 23, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath	47 min
Aug 23, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wyoming	30 min
Aug 23, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter	43 min
Aug 23, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	49 min
Aug 23, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Monroe	32 min
Aug 23, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	37 min
Aug 23, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee	51 min
Aug 23, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Mercer, Summers	34 min
Aug 23, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Putnam	31 min
Aug 23, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha	36 min
Aug 23, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Perry	45 min
Aug 23, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Owsley	39 min
Aug 23, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott	48 min
Aug 23, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton	31 min
Aug 23, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	55 min
Aug 23, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	53 min
Aug 23, 6:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Randolph	3 hr
Aug 23, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher	47 min
Aug 23, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise, City of Norton	43 min
Aug 23, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	34 min
Aug 23, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	34 min
Aug 23, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell	41 min
Aug 23, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan	23 min
Aug 23, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Tazewell	50 min
Aug 23, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	44 min
Aug 23, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Smyth	46 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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
Aug 22, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Fountain, Newton, Parke, Vermillion, Warren	5 hr
Aug 23, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath and 50 more	4 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.