Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1223
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 12, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT for 54 counties in Kentucky; 14 counties in Virginia; 10 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle and 84 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 77 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fulton | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 68 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fulton | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Livingston, McCracken | 84 min |
| Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Graves and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Graves and 12 more | 37 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2004Every mesoscale discussion in 2004
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.