Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 2007
Tornado Watch 194
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2007, 4:18 PM EDT for 4 counties in Indiana; 65 counties in Kentucky; 30 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2007, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2007, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 99 counties
Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Scott County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Bullitt 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, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 23 min |
| Apr 26, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 17 min |
| Apr 26, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Overton | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 15 min |
| Apr 26, 5:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Overton | 23 min |
| Apr 26, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 28 min |
| Apr 26, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 14 min |
| Apr 26, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan | 26 min |
| Apr 26, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Morgan | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Anderson | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Campbell | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 7:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Union | 59 min |
| Apr 26, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 7:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 8:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 15 min |
| Apr 26, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan, Rowan | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 9:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott | 36 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 1:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Delaware, Elkhart and 22 more | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 2:26 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Dearborn, DeKalb, Elkhart and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Floyd | 53 min |
| Apr 26, 5:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 36 more | 95 min |
| Apr 26, 6:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 31 more | 93 min |
| Apr 26, 7:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Carter, Clark, Clay and 29 more | 93 min |
| Apr 26, 5:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Franklin, Hamilton, Marion, Polk | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 5:53 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Franklin, Hamilton, Marion, Polk | 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.