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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 199

May 1, 200359 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Ohio; 34 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 1, 2003, 2:35 PM CDT for 59 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Ohio; 34 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 2003, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 101 counties

Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton 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, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Highland County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	47 min
May 1, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Williamson	45 min
May 1, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	40 min
May 1, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	48 min
May 1, 3:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Carter, Lawrence	2 hr
May 1, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Wilson	54 min
May 1, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	31 min
May 1, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Sumner, Wilson	50 min
May 1, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson, Wilson	48 min
May 1, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	43 min
May 1, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale	50 min
May 1, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	45 min
May 1, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	28 min
May 1, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Smith	51 min
May 1, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Lewis	33 min
May 1, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	64 min
May 1, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland	30 min
May 1, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	47 min
May 1, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton	30 min
May 1, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cumberland	51 min
May 1, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell	28 min
May 1, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	63 min
May 1, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	33 min
May 1, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bledsoe, Rhea	43 min
May 1, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Jessamine, Madison	33 min
May 1, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Wayne	37 min
May 1, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton, Loudon, McMinn, Marion, Monroe	57 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 7:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ballard, Carlisle, Livingston, McCracken, Union	114 min
May 1, 9:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ballard, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 5 more	5 hr
May 1, 11:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Hopkins, Logan and 10 more	2 hr
May 1, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian and 27 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
Apr 30, 8:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance and 25 more	87 min
May 1, 11:41 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbiana, Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull	3 hr
May 1, 12:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Champaign, Crawford, Darke and 24 more	3 hr
May 1, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Belmont, Butler and 56 more	5 hr
May 1, 3:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Belmont, Butler, Carroll and 51 more	95 min
May 1, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton and 24 more	4 hr
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.