Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2022
Mesoscale Discussion 324
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 23, 2022, 1:52 PM EDT for 29 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Tennessee; Lee County, Virginia. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2022, 1:52 PM EDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2022, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 41 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Union County, TN, Lee County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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.
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 12:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Trimble | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Martin, Pike | 90 min |
| Mar 23, 2:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup, Johnson and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 23, 4:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 4:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Martin, Pike | 115 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2022Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2022Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2022Every mesoscale discussion in 2022
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.