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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 370

June 1, 20045 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2004, 3:55 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2004, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2004, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 177 counties

Clark County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry 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, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Miami County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Washington County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Montgomery	43 min
Jun 1, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath	53 min
Jun 1, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	51 min
Jun 1, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	35 min
Jun 1, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon	18 min
Jun 1, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Greenup	28 min
Jun 1, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	59 min
Jun 1, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	29 min
Jun 1, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	26 min
Jun 1, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd	25 min
Jun 1, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	52 min
Jun 1, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	65 min
Jun 1, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Vinton	34 min
Jun 1, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Montgomery	62 min
Jun 1, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs, Vinton	28 min
Jun 1, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	27 min
Jun 1, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	49 min
Jun 1, 4:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Powell	34 min
Jun 1, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Madison	48 min
Jun 1, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign	46 min
Jun 1, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	29 min
Jun 1, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Lincoln, Putnam	44 min
Jun 1, 5:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Menifee	23 min
Jun 1, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	50 min
Jun 1, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Pickaway	45 min
Jun 1, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	43 min
Jun 1, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	58 min
Jun 1, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wirt	24 min
Jun 1, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Magoffin	29 min
Jun 1, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson	40 min
Jun 1, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Perry	42 min
Jun 1, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	38 min
Jun 1, 8:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	25 min
Jun 1, 8:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	28 min
Jun 1, 8:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	41 min
Jun 1, 8:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	36 min
Jun 1, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	45 min
Jun 1, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	45 min
Jun 1, 9:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	21 min
Jun 1, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	33 min
Jun 1, 10:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	36 min
Jun 1, 10:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	41 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 9:25 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 30 more	2 hr
Jun 1, 2:30 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 55 more	60 min
Jun 1, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 61 more	8 hr
Jun 1, 4:56 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Jefferson, Ohio, Ripley and 1 more	34 min
Jun 1, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Pike	5 hr
Jun 1, 7:24 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Pike	66 min
Jun 1, 11:11 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks and 39 more	64 min
Jun 1, 12:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks and 37 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 4:22 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks and 37 more	53 min
Jun 1, 11:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.