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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 458

June 13, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2004, 11:40 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2004, 11:40 AM CDT (16:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 90 counties

Crittenden County, AR, Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, McLean County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Powell County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Clay County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	62 min
Jun 13, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	31 min
Jun 13, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery	61 min
Jun 13, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn	38 min
Jun 13, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss	40 min
Jun 13, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	39 min
Jun 13, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	39 min
Jun 13, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	38 min
Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton, Humphreys	45 min
Jun 13, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood	24 min
Jun 13, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	21 min
Jun 13, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Montgomery, Robertson	61 min
Jun 13, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	24 min
Jun 13, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	34 min
Jun 13, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	33 min
Jun 13, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	46 min
Jun 13, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	34 min
Jun 13, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Gibson	31 min
Jun 13, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette	25 min
Jun 13, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Benton	55 min
Jun 13, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll	36 min
Jun 13, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	61 min
Jun 13, 2:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll	116 min
Jun 13, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton	62 min
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Humphreys	59 min
Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston	63 min
Jun 13, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Perry	45 min
Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis	45 min
Jun 13, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	51 min
Jun 13, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton	29 min
Jun 13, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	28 min
Jun 13, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury, Williamson	53 min
Jun 13, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	48 min
Jun 13, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	61 min
Jun 13, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss	37 min
Jun 13, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	46 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

Mesoscale Discussion 1242Jun 13, 10:29 AM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 1101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 10:29 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crittenden, Mississippi	2 hr
Jun 13, 1:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 13 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 4:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 9 more	62 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Casey, Clay and 15 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 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.