Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 462
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kentucky; 27 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bell County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hart County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Smith County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, White County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Trousdale | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Wilson | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Putnam | 64 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 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
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 | Adair, Allen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Logan and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge, Butler and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 9 more | 62 min |
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.