Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 276
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 14, 2005, 11:10 AM CDT for 67 counties in Kentucky; Lawrence County, Ohio; 37 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2005, 11:10 AM CDT (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 105 counties
Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Lawrence County, OH, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 25 min |
| May 14, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Jackson, Putnam, Smith | 24 min |
| May 14, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton, Putnam | 35 min |
| May 14, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Union | 31 min |
| May 14, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 17 min |
| May 14, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson, Washington | 34 min |
| May 14, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Wilson | 37 min |
| May 14, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 35 min |
| May 14, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon, Roane | 33 min |
| May 14, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn | 47 min |
| May 14, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine, Woodford | 24 min |
| May 14, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Monroe | 53 min |
| May 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Madison | 35 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 13, 7:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess, Graves and 11 more | 26 min |
| May 13, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 10:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 86 min |
| May 14, 10:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 35 more | 90 min |
| May 14, 2:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd and 58 more | 96 min |
| May 13, 8:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Belmont, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning, Monroe and 1 more | 85 min |
| May 14, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Monroe, Vinton and 1 more | 91 min |
| May 14, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble, Washington | 6 hr |
| May 14, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble, Washington | 83 min |
| May 14, 4:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood and 7 more | 3 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.