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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 176
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 22, 2014, 2:33 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2014, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2014, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 83 counties
Alexander County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Ballard County, KY, Barren County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Anderson County, TN, Benton County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Weakley County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins | 34 min |
| May 22, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Warren | 29 min |
| May 22, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd | 49 min |
| May 22, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 30 min |
| May 22, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 35 min |
| May 22, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Monroe | 32 min |
| May 22, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon | 41 min |
| May 22, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 40 min |
| May 22, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 29 min |
| May 22, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Smith | 32 min |
| May 22, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Overton, Putnam | 33 min |
| May 22, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson, Macon, Putnam, Smith, Trousdale | 46 min |
| May 22, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Morgan, Roane, Scott | 33 min |
| May 22, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Knox | 48 min |
| May 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Rhea, Roane | 36 min |
| May 22, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Roane | 35 min |
| May 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Monroe | 31 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 650 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 11:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar | 96 min |
| May 21, 8:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 60 more | 93 min |
| May 22, 2:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Casey and 35 more | 97 min |
| May 22, 2:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Butler, Caldwell and 43 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 6:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Graves, Logan, Lyon and 4 more | 88 min |
| May 22, 2:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buchanan, Holt, Platte | 119 min |
| May 22, 5:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Greene and 8 more | 93 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.