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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 370

June 8, 20076 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 8, 2007, 11:37 AM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2007, 11:37 AM CDT (16:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 195 counties

Adair County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Washington County, TN, White 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, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 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: 20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 5%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 40%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Monroe	37 min
Jun 8, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	65 min
Jun 8, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike	46 min
Jun 8, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	30 min
Jun 8, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	30 min
Jun 8, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	23 min
Jun 8, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Smith	8 min
Jun 8, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson	48 min
Jun 8, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	45 min
Jun 8, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	44 min
Jun 8, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike, Scioto	50 min
Jun 8, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Perry	34 min
Jun 8, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	43 min
Jun 8, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	42 min
Jun 8, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Lewis	49 min
Jun 8, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	46 min
Jun 8, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	37 min
Jun 8, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Meigs, Vinton	36 min
Jun 8, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	14 min
Jun 8, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee, Owsley	23 min
Jun 8, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	48 min
Jun 8, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan	62 min
Jun 8, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin	48 min
Jun 8, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bledsoe	47 min
Jun 8, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	54 min
Jun 8, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	62 min
Jun 8, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Rhea	42 min
Jun 8, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	35 min
Jun 8, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Tuscarawas	25 min
Jun 8, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	24 min
Jun 8, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Roane	54 min
Jun 8, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell	38 min
Jun 8, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	37 min
Jun 8, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lincoln	16 min
Jun 8, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne	60 min
Jun 8, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Meigs	58 min
Jun 8, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	56 min
Jun 8, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson	54 min
Jun 8, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	61 min
Jun 8, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Union	61 min
Jun 8, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	44 min
Jun 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox	58 min
Jun 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia, Wetzel	58 min
Jun 8, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	McMinn	53 min
Jun 8, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Loudon	63 min
Jun 8, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	53 min
Jun 8, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Columbiana	31 min
Jun 8, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	59 min
Jun 8, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamilton	23 min
Jun 8, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, Polk	62 min
Jun 8, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamblen, Jefferson	39 min
Jun 8, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee, Scott	66 min
Jun 8, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise, City of Norton	59 min
Jun 8, 5:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Westmoreland	2 hr
Jun 8, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	66 min
Jun 8, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter, Johnson	44 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 242 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: 1045 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -249 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 6:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ballard	67 min
Jun 8, 8:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 77 more	90 min
Jun 8, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Boone, Bracken and 59 more	6 hr
Jun 8, 11:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Breathitt and 44 more	58 min
Jun 8, 11:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge and 36 more	65 min
Jun 8, 2:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle and 49 more	54 min
Jun 8, 10:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Crawford, Cuyahoga and 36 more	53 min
Jun 8, 10:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Crawford, Cuyahoga and 37 more	7 hr
Jun 8, 1:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Butler, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford and 10 more	97 min
Jun 8, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Cambria and 22 more	7 hr
Jun 8, 3:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bedford, Berks, Carbon, Chester, Columbia and 20 more	93 min
Jun 8, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton and 12 more	5 hr
Jun 8, 6:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Berks, Bradford, Cameron, Carbon, Centre and 30 more	117 min
Jun 8, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 32 more	7 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2007 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2007 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2007 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2007

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.