Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 111
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 26, 2016, 6:45 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2016, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2016, 12:56 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 160 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Knott County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Washington County, OH, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Covington, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Highland County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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
- 40%
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ripley | 27 min |
| Apr 26, 7:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Campbell | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Rowan | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland, Warren | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer, Woodford | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Scott, Shelby | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 11:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Breathitt, Estill, Jackson, Lee, Menifee and 5 more | 43 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 1:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 37 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gibson, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 1 more | 115 min |
| Apr 26, 1:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan | 86 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.