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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 562

July 5, 2004Clark County, Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana; 68 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2004, 1:50 PM EDT for Clark County, Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana; 68 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2004, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 71 counties

Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen 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, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 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
Jul 5, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	56 min
Jul 5, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	61 min
Jul 5, 2:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian	3 hr
Jul 5, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	47 min
Jul 5, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	45 min
Jul 5, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	44 min
Jul 5, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	42 min
Jul 5, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	45 min
Jul 5, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	43 min
Jul 5, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	40 min
Jul 5, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	49 min
Jul 5, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson, Warren	45 min
Jul 5, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	41 min
Jul 5, 3:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Warren	37 min
Jul 5, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	44 min
Jul 5, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	30 min
Jul 5, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	46 min
Jul 5, 3:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Logan	85 min
Jul 5, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	34 min
Jul 5, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	44 min
Jul 5, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	42 min
Jul 5, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	54 min
Jul 5, 3:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Allen	95 min
Jul 5, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	43 min
Jul 5, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	40 min
Jul 5, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	36 min
Jul 5, 4:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Monroe	33 min
Jul 5, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	44 min
Jul 5, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby	38 min
Jul 5, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	50 min
Jul 5, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	26 min
Jul 5, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin	35 min
Jul 5, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	36 min
Jul 5, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	43 min
Jul 5, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wayne	40 min
Jul 5, 4:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Cumberland	85 min
Jul 5, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	29 min
Jul 5, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	33 min
Jul 5, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	43 min
Jul 5, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	45 min
Jul 5, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	36 min
Jul 5, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee, Owsley	50 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 2320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 10:12 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, Vanderburgh and 1 more	63 min
Jul 5, 10:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Jackson, Knox and 9 more	4 hr
Jul 5, 1:08 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 14 more	67 min
Jul 5, 4:44 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell, Bourbon and 68 more	61 min
Jul 5, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Harlan, Leslie	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 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.