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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 296

May 19, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 19, 2005, 9:05 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2005, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 118 counties

Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson 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, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Scott County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, Wilson 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, Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Owsley	51 min
May 19, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	46 min
May 19, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	41 min
May 19, 9:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson and 4 more	2 hr
May 19, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	30 min
May 19, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	46 min
May 19, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	28 min
May 19, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	29 min
May 19, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	51 min
May 19, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner	27 min
May 19, 10:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Clay	4 hr
May 19, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon	28 min
May 19, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Macon, Smith	33 min
May 19, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee	16 min
May 19, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wyoming	48 min
May 19, 11:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hart	2 hr
May 19, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hancock	17 min
May 19, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Union	23 min
May 20, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hawkins	15 min
May 20, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	41 min
May 20, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	19 min
May 20, 12:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	84 min
May 20, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Grainger, Knox	22 min
May 20, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay	28 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

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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 94 more	89 min
May 19, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian and 20 more	5 hr
May 19, 10:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crittenden, Livingston, Union	2 hr
May 19, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	7 hr
May 20, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Clinton, Cumberland and 15 more	8 hr
May 20, 4:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler and 35 more	57 min
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.