Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 356
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2015, 6:30 PM CDT for 49 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Virginia; 8 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2015, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 68 counties
Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley, Perry | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Morgan | 23 min |
| Jun 25, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe | 20 min |
| Jun 25, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Jefferson, Meade, Spencer | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Hart, Larue | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 1:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Green, Larue, Marion, Taylor | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 1:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine, Madison | 2 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bullitt, Hancock, Henderson, Jefferson, Meade, Oldham and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Crittenden, Daviess, Grayson, Hancock and 8 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle and 51 more | 97 min |
| Jun 25, 2:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Brunswick and 55 more | 93 min |
| Jun 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox and 82 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham and 60 more | 97 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015
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.