Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 347
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2016, 12:39 PM CDT for 11 counties in Illinois; 12 counties in Indiana; 56 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2016, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2016, 4:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 79 counties
Edwards 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, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey 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, Fulton County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins 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, 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
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 1:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd, Trigg | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and 1 more | 28 min |
| Jul 7, 2:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pike, Spencer, Warrick | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Ohio and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Perry | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Ohio, Warren | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Simpson, Warren | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Warren | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Perry | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hart, Warren | 28 min |
| Jul 7, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe, Simpson and 1 more | 24 min |
| Jul 7, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 3:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Green, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Taylor | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Russell | 24 min |
| Jul 7, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Green, Russell, Taylor | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 36 min |
| Jul 7, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell | 14 min |
| Jul 7, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Casey, Lincoln, Marion, Russell | 29 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 189 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
- 649 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 5:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Calhoun, Franklin, Greene, Jackson and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 32 more | 95 min |
| Jul 7, 12:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Lawrence, Massac and 5 more | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 2:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dubois, Perry, Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Harlan, Jackson and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Leslie and 1 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.