Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 97
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 4, 2008, 2:27 PM EST for 32 counties in Kentucky; 18 counties in Virginia; 18 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2008, 2:27 PM EST (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2008, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 68 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson 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, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle | 30 min |
| Mar 4, 2:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 37 min |
| Mar 4, 3:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery | 34 min |
| Mar 4, 3:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie | 29 min |
| Mar 4, 6:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Smyth, Tazewell | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Bland | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 7:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Patrick, Pulaski, Wythe and 1 more | 49 min |
| Mar 4, 7:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Floyd, Franklin and 8 more | 54 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 568 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 4, 10:38 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Bell, Boyle and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence, Letcher, Magoffin and 2 more | 94 min |
| Mar 4, 6:33 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Charles City, Greensville, Isle of Wight, Prince George, Southampton, Surry and 6 more | 87 min |
| Mar 4, 4:31 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, Charlotte, Floyd and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:53 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Arlington, Augusta, Bath and 82 more | 9 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2008Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2008
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.