Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 707
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 4, 2004, 2:30 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2004, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 100 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd 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, Johnson County, KY, Knott 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, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike 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, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Lawrence County, OH, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 67 min |
| Aug 4, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 64 min |
| Aug 4, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Marion | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Scott | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 58 min |
| Aug 4, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 6:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 52 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 694 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain and 22 more | 67 min |
| Aug 3, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 12:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko and 9 more | 58 min |
| Aug 4, 2:15 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 26 more | 90 min |
| Aug 4, 6:44 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Clay and 28 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 7 more | 89 min |
| Aug 4, 4:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry and 3 more | 96 min |
| Aug 4, 10:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Greenup, Kenton, Lewis and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Fleming, Greenup, Lewis | 119 min |
| Aug 4, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clarke, Frederick, City of Winchester | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Frederick, City of Winchester | 117 min |
| Aug 4, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, City of Alexandria, City of Fairfax, City of Falls Church and 2 more | 4 hr |
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.