Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 742
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 7, 2011, 9:18 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2011, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2011, 1:19 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Greene County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, New Madrid, Stoddard, Wayne | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Obion | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 40 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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 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
- 1065 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Craighead, Fulton and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Izard, Lawrence and 3 more | 96 min |
| Aug 8, 2:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Crawford, Cross and 29 more | 86 min |
| Aug 8, 1:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Grundy, Henderson and 19 more | 84 min |
| Aug 8, 5:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt, Ford and 21 more | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Grundy and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Cass, Cedar, Dade and 7 more | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 13 more | 3 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.