Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 9
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 2, 2006, 4:11 PM EST for 28 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2006, 4:11 PM EST (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2006, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 50 min |
| Jan 2, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 46 min |
| Jan 2, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine, Woodford | 36 min |
| Jan 2, 4:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Jan 2, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 42 min |
| Jan 2, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 34 min |
| Jan 2, 4:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 40 min |
| Jan 2, 4:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard | 39 min |
| Jan 2, 5:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 37 min |
| Jan 2, 5:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 59 min |
| Jan 2, 5:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jan 2, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 43 min |
| Jan 2, 5:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Owsley | 64 min |
| Jan 2, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 38 min |
| Jan 2, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 2 hr |
| Jan 2, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 45 min |
| Jan 2, 6:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Menifee, Powell | 27 min |
| Jan 2, 6:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 11 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 11:55 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 59 min |
| Jan 2, 6:38 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 2, 8:57 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 93 min |
| Jan 2, 12:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 37 more | 90 min |
| Jan 2, 12:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:53 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 35 more | 97 min |
| Jan 2, 5:55 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark and 32 more | 95 min |
| Jan 2, 6:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott and 14 more | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.