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Tornado Watch 135
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 19, 2008, 3:03 PM EDT for 25 counties in Kentucky; 33 counties in Tennessee; Lee County, Wise County, City of Norton, Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2008, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2008, 7:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs 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, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, City of Norton, VA, Lee County, VA, Wise County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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
36 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Warren, White | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Overton, Putnam | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Van Buren, White | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress, Pickett | 23 min |
| Mar 19, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Van Buren | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary and 1 more | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 52 min |
| Mar 19, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley and 2 more | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Sequatchie | 63 min |
| Mar 19, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, McCreary, Whitley | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Rhea | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Roane | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Knott, Leslie, Magoffin and 3 more | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 5:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Perry | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher and 2 more | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | McMinn | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Martin | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon, Monroe | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Magoffin, Perry, Pike | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Grainger, Union | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Harlan | 20 min |
| Mar 19, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Sevier | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott, Wise | 35 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 623 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 803 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 18, 9:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 3 more | 92 min |
| Mar 19, 2:13 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barren, Bullitt, Butler, Calloway, Christian and 18 more | 62 min |
| Mar 19, 2:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 19 more | 58 min |
| Mar 19, 4:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Floyd and 14 more | 66 min |
| Mar 18, 11:51 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy | 8 hr |
| Mar 19, 12:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood and 6 more | 63 min |
| Mar 19, 5:55 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Giles | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:08 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Franklin, Giles, Hardin, Lawrence, Lewis and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins and 8 more | 86 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2008Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2008Tornado Watches in Virginia, 2008Every tornado 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.