Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 26
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 29, 2008, 5:07 PM CST for 6 counties in Indiana; 15 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2008, 5:07 PM CST (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2008, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 21 counties
Gibson County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Posey | 38 min |
| Jan 29, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson | 19 min |
| Jan 29, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 46 min |
| Jan 29, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall and 2 more | 46 min |
| Jan 29, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 42 min |
| Jan 29, 5:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh, Warrick | 24 min |
| Jan 29, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Warrick | 30 min |
| Jan 29, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer, Warrick | 50 min |
| Jan 29, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster | 55 min |
| Jan 29, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd, Trigg | 49 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 292250
SEL6
SPC WW 292250
INZ000-KYZ000-300100-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 26
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
450 PM CST TUE JAN 29 2008
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHERN INDIANA
WESTERN KENTUCKY
EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 450 PM UNTIL
700 PM CST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 30 STATUTE
MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF
EVANSVILLE INDIANA TO 25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT CAMPBELL
KENTUCKY. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE
ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 24...WW 25...
DISCUSSION...EXTENSION OF TORNADO WATCH 24. INCREASING STORMS WILL
CONTINUE EWD ACROSS WW IN FORM OF SMALL LINES/SUPERCELLS WITH
WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED EXTREME WIND DAMAGE AND/OR
TORNADOES.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 0.5 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
350. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 27035.
...EVANSSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 10:21 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 8 more | 54 min |
| Jan 29, 10:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander | 66 min |
| Jan 29, 11:32 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Fayette and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 29, 12:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 29, 1:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 11 more | 66 min |
| Jan 29, 3:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards and 24 more | 64 min |
| Jan 29, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 46 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 29, 5:38 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange and 6 more | 97 min |
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.