Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 86
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 13, 2006, 7:56 AM EST for 15 counties in Indiana; 20 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2006, 7:56 AM EST (12:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2006, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:56 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.
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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 9:00 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 14 more | 90 min |
| Mar 12, 9:42 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 7 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:39 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 96 min |
| Mar 13, 12:23 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:06 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 4:19 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton and 44 more | 86 min |
| Mar 13, 4:52 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 57 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 13, 7:08 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dubois, Gibson, Knox, Perry, Pike, Posey and 3 more | 97 min |
| Mar 13, 10:39 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 28 more | 66 min |
| Mar 13, 10:44 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Huntington, Kosciusko and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:13 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Jefferson, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland | 92 min |
| Mar 13, 1:35 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston and 2 more | 85 min |
| Mar 13, 10:02 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 58 min |
| Mar 13, 1:36 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Chester, Coffee and 33 more | 114 min |
| Mar 13, 2:48 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 4:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee and 40 more | 91 min |
| Mar 13, 5:48 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 6:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Coffee and 37 more | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2006Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2006
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.