Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 196
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 1, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 86 counties
Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson 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, Oldham County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett | 23 min |
| May 1, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 51 min |
| May 1, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey | 48 min |
| May 1, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin | 28 min |
| May 1, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Haywood | 36 min |
| May 1, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 46 min |
| May 1, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Madison | 57 min |
| May 1, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 41 min |
| May 1, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henderson | 30 min |
| May 1, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 42 min |
| May 1, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 41 min |
| May 1, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh | 54 min |
| May 1, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 37 min |
| May 1, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey | 17 min |
| May 1, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 46 min |
| May 1, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys | 44 min |
| May 1, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Decatur, Henderson | 46 min |
| May 1, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh | 23 min |
| May 1, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 36 min |
| May 1, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Warrick | 35 min |
| May 1, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson | 47 min |
| May 1, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson | 31 min |
| May 1, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 45 min |
| May 1, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Perry | 41 min |
| May 1, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 55 min |
| May 1, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 37 min |
| May 1, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Warrick | 35 min |
| May 1, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pike | 45 min |
| May 1, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 41 min |
| May 1, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 25 min |
| May 1, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 34 min |
| May 1, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 46 min |
| May 1, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tippah | 40 min |
| May 1, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 47 min |
| May 1, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman | 29 min |
| May 1, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis | 38 min |
| May 1, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson | 49 min |
| May 1, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 32 min |
| May 1, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 31 min |
| May 1, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford | 35 min |
| May 1, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 24 min |
| May 1, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 31 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 21 more | 119 min |
| Apr 30, 10:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 21 more | 89 min |
| Apr 30, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 1:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton and 18 more | 86 min |
| May 1, 7:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 14 more | 114 min |
| May 1, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 12:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 26 more | 3 hr |
| May 1, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay and 43 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 3:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay and 35 more | 95 min |
| May 1, 11:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Hopkins, Logan and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 1, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 53 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 5:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone and 52 more | 94 min |
| May 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone and 52 more | 95 min |
| May 1, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes and 4 more | 119 min |
| May 1, 10:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hawkins, Jefferson and 7 more | 113 min |
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.