Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 704
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 10, 2006, 3:58 PM EDT for 33 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2006, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2006, 8:46 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 33 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Owsley | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 116 min |
| Aug 10, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 41 min |
| Aug 10, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 8:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 2 hr |
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Franklin, Gallatin and 13 more | 93 min |
| Aug 10, 1:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess and 14 more | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle, Breckinridge and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 41 more | 88 min |
| Aug 10, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.