Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 722
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 14, 2005, 5:25 PM CDT for 13 counties in Illinois; 10 counties in Indiana; 26 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2005, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hopkins, Webster | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Saline, Williamson | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 6:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Saline | 87 min |
| Aug 14, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | White | 61 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1079 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 11:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Jackson, Union | 5 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 10 more | 93 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.