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Tornado Watch 18
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 10, 2008, 2:19 PM CST for 48 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2008, 2:19 PM CST (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2008, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 48 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison 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, Owsley County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 112 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Hart | 36 min |
| Jan 10, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 17 min |
| Jan 10, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Larue, Marion, Taylor | 19 min |
| Jan 10, 3:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Marion, Nelson, Washington | 18 min |
| Jan 10, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 20 min |
| Jan 10, 3:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer, Washington | 27 min |
| Jan 10, 3:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell | 36 min |
| Jan 10, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 26 min |
| Jan 10, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 26 min |
| Jan 10, 4:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Harrison, Nelson, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jan 10, 4:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 45 min |
| Jan 10, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 41 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 165 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 7:52 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell and 30 more | 113 min |
| Jan 10, 1:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 46 more | 87 min |
| Jan 10, 3:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Butler, Casey and 30 more | 115 min |
| Jan 10, 3:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe | 93 min |
| Jan 10, 7:17 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson and 4 more | 118 min |
| Jan 10, 7:46 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Hardeman, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 10, 9:23 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Decatur, Giles, Hardin, Hickman, Lawrence and 10 more | 67 min |
| Jan 10, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 27 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 10, 12:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McNairy | 96 min |
| Jan 10, 1:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Giles, Hardin, Lawrence, Lewis, McNairy and 4 more | 93 min |
| Jan 10, 5:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb and 22 more | 95 min |
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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.