Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 337
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2016, 1:24 PM CDT for 49 counties in Kentucky; 35 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2016, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 7:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 84 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marion 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, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Shelby | 12 min |
| Jul 6, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Shelby | 19 min |
| Jul 6, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Crittenden, Graves, Livingston, Lyon and 2 more | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Trigg | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery, Stewart | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Union, Webster | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue, Nelson | 11 min |
| Jul 6, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg, Todd | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Ohio | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Smith | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Smith, Wilson | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Warren | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Macon, Sumner, Trousdale | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Robertson, Sumner | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe and 1 more | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Macon, Robertson, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 more | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Green, Russell | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Allen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe and 2 more | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Maury, Williamson | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Overton, Putnam, White | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Smith, Trousdale | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Smith, Williamson, Wilson | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, Putnam | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Putnam and 1 more | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith, White and 1 more | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Rutherford, Warren | 34 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1605 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 10:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Jo Daviess, Ogle, Stephenson, Winnebago | 89 min |
| Jul 6, 1:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Cook, DeWitt, DuPage and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 41 more | 116 min |
| Jul 6, 10:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Pulaski, Union | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson and 6 more | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Carter, Clark and 19 more | 84 min |
| Jul 6, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Knox, Laurel and 7 more | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 6:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and 1 more | 54 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.