Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 258
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2016, 12:39 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2016, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 152 counties
Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Ballard County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marion County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Russell County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Clay County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves, McCracken | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Marshall | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean, Muhlenberg | 18 min |
| Jun 15, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Stewart | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Ohio | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Henry, Weakley | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall, Trigg | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion, Weakley | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Ohio | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Henry, Weakley | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion, Weakley | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Meade | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 3:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Henry, Obion, Weakley | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Robertson | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Logan, Simpson | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Wilson | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Decatur, Hardin | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren, Wilson | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam, Smith, Warren, White | 29 min |
| Jun 15, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Grundy, Rutherford, Warren | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Putnam, Van Buren, Warren, White | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall | 24 min |
| Jun 15, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 21 min |
| Jun 15, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Grundy, Van Buren, Warren | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Obion | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Perry | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 38 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 14, 7:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Clay, DeWitt, Effingham, Fayette, Logan and 7 more | 117 min |
| Jun 14, 8:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Whiteside | 84 min |
| Jun 14, 11:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Lee, Ogle | 93 min |
| Jun 15, 12:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 3 more | 85 min |
| Jun 15, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more | 97 min |
| Jun 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wabash | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Scott | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 1:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence, Leslie and 5 more | 93 min |
| Jun 15, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola and 3 more | 91 min |
| Jun 15, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dent, Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon and 3 more | 89 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.