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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 293

May 26, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2004, 12:25 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2004, 12:25 PM EDT (16:25 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 107 counties

Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Marshall County, KY, Mason County, KY, McLean 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, 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, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Mason County, WV

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	27 min
May 26, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	33 min
May 26, 12:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	32 min
May 26, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins	56 min
May 26, 1:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	2 hr
May 26, 1:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins	24 min
May 26, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	41 min
May 26, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	36 min
May 26, 2:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Hardin	83 min
May 26, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	23 min
May 26, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	36 min
May 26, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	36 min
May 26, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	47 min
May 26, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	23 min
May 26, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	37 min
May 26, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	51 min
May 26, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	34 min
May 26, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	32 min
May 26, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	31 min
May 26, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	46 min
May 26, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Woodford	29 min
May 26, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	41 min
May 26, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	33 min
May 26, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Madison	34 min
May 26, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	41 min
May 26, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	47 min
May 26, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	38 min
May 26, 3:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Warren	103 min
May 26, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson	38 min
May 26, 4:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Barren	116 min
May 26, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	43 min
May 26, 5:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian	37 min
May 26, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	29 min
May 26, 5:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Todd	37 min
May 26, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	34 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 268 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: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 19 more	92 min
May 26, 9:20 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 22 more	85 min
May 26, 9:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 19 more	5 hr
May 26, 11:50 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 19 more	85 min
May 26, 2:18 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 3 more	87 min
May 26, 1:38 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Knox and 5 more	97 min
May 26, 2:10 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken	8 hr
May 26, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Floyd and 18 more	7 hr
May 26, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Butler, Caldwell and 37 more	6 hr
May 26, 4:32 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken	88 min
May 26, 6:27 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Butler, Caldwell and 31 more	93 min
May 26, 6:57 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	93 min
May 26, 12:55 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette and 26 more	95 min
May 26, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Berkeley, Jefferson	5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.