Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 12
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 13, 2005, 12:25 PM EST for 6 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2005, 12:25 PM EST (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2005, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 131 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan 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, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Buncombe County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 12:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason, Robertson | 28 min |
| Jan 13, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown | 23 min |
| Jan 13, 1:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 76 days |
| Jan 13, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 30 min |
| Jan 13, 1:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 48 min |
| Jan 13, 1:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Montgomery, Pike | 69 days |
| Jan 13, 1:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross | 46 min |
| Jan 13, 2:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea, Roane | 39 days |
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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 581 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 575 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 10:53 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Floyd and 21 more | 117 min |
| Jan 13, 5:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 12:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Williams | 5 hr |
| Jan 13, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Fairfield and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 13, 5:29 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Monroe, Washington | 31 min |
| Jan 12, 10:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake | 32 min |
| Jan 13, 8:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 26 more | 6 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.