Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1255
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2004, 9:23 PM EDT for 44 counties in Kentucky; 12 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 97 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2004, 9:23 PM EDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Knox 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, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Knox County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Union County, TN, White County, TN
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Fleming, Greenup, Lewis, Mason, Montgomery and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Livingston | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Lawrence | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 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.