Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 268
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2005, 1:20 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2005, 1:20 PM CDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Knox County, IN, Martin County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Mississippi County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey | 24 min |
| May 13, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Lawrence, Martin | 38 min |
| May 13, 3:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Knox | 55 min |
| May 13, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 547 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Pike | 90 min |
| May 12, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 12:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cook, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 13 more | 85 min |
| May 13, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 13, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 2:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison | 2 hr |
| May 13, 4:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 12 more | 88 min |
| May 13, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Franklin, Union, Wayne | 62 min |
| May 13, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland, Union | 7 hr |
| May 12, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte | 34 min |
| May 13, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 15 more | 7 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.