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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 295

May 19, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 19, 2005, 8:50 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2005, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 77 counties

Lawrence County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Allen County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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

27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue	47 min
May 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Owen, Parke, Putnam	43 min
May 19, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson	64 min
May 19, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	47 min
May 19, 9:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	2 hr
May 19, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	29 min
May 19, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	32 min
May 19, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Monroe, Morgan	36 min
May 19, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson	45 min
May 19, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Clay, Greene, Owen, Sullivan, Vigo	23 min
May 19, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	27 min
May 19, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clay, Lawrence, Richland	67 min
May 19, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Vanderburgh, Warrick	47 min
May 19, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pike	50 min
May 19, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	39 min
May 19, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence	25 min
May 19, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	36 min
May 19, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, Wayne	60 min
May 19, 11:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hart	2 hr
May 19, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	32 min
May 19, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pike	51 min
May 20, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	49 min
May 20, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Warrick	44 min
May 20, 12:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	84 min
May 20, 1:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Warren	2 hr
May 20, 1:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Grayson, Hart	3 hr
May 20, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 395 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 8:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Lawrence, Wabash	89 min
May 19, 10:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 34 more	2 hr
May 19, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 16 more	7 hr
May 20, 4:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 8 more	57 min
May 19, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 66 more	5 hr
May 20, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Clinton, Cumberland and 15 more	8 hr
May 19, 11:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson and 7 more	2 hr
May 19, 11:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson and 7 more	2 hr
May 20, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Johnson	7 hr
May 20, 7:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee and 43 more	93 min
May 20, 8:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall and 4 more	7 hr
May 20, 12:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall and 4 more	65 min
May 20, 2:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cumberland, Grundy, Hamilton and 10 more	60 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.