Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 397
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2007, 11:49 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2007, 11:49 AM CDT (16:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 159 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, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer 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, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress 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, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Washington County, TN, White County, TN, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Giles County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 78 min |
| Jun 14, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion, Sequatchie | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Summers | 85 min |
| Jun 14, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 22 min |
| Jun 14, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Rhea | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer | 77 min |
| Jun 14, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Roane | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn, Monroe | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 45 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle and 56 more | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2007Every 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.