Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 360
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2015, 3:08 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2015, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2015, 8:57 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 109 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Scott County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Warren County, OH, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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
- 60%
- 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
42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Warren | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Highland, Pike, Ross | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Adams, Highland, Pike, Scioto | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 19 min |
| Jun 26, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, Hart | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Barren, Hart, Metcalfe | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Ohio | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Madison, Pickaway, Pike and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Meade | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Warren | 23 min |
| Jun 26, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 5:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Shelby | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Shelby | 13 min |
| Jun 26, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 6:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Shelby | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 6:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen, Pendleton | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason, Pendleton | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason, Robertson | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman, Humphreys, Perry | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas | 19 min |
| Jun 26, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason | 51 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 11:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 12 more | 85 min |
| Jun 26, 12:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 15 more | 115 min |
| Jun 26, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Vanderburgh | 89 min |
| Jun 26, 5:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark and 33 more | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 32 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 7:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Bracken, Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Garrard and 11 more | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 5:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Franklin, Grundy and 11 more | 87 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.