Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 101
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 27, 2005, 6:45 PM EST for 34 counties in Kentucky; Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2005, 6:45 PM EST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2005, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 36 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 437 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 572 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:50 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 56 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:07 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Butler, Casey and 25 more | 83 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.