Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 668
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 22, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT for Spencer County, Indiana; 69 counties in Kentucky; Montgomery County, Robertson County, Stewart County, Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 73 counties
Spencer 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, Caldwell County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, McCreary County, KY, McLean 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, Ohio County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Webster County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Stewart County, TN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue, Nelson | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 4:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | McLean | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 35 min |
| Jul 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 39 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 459 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 41 more | 56 min |
| Jul 21, 9:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clay, Dearborn and 21 more | 59 min |
| Jul 22, 11:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Clay, Fountain, Jasper, Lake, Montgomery and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 80 more | 83 min |
| Jul 22, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 78 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Clark, Crawford and 38 more | 93 min |
| Jul 22, 6:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breathitt, Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher and 4 more | 116 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.