Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2022
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 404
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2022, 6:18 PM EDT for 46 counties in Kentucky; 7 counties in Virginia; 18 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2022, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2022, 11:03 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 71 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Giles County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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
- 5%
- 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
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 18 min |
| Jun 22, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, Rowan and 1 more | 31 min |
| Jun 22, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Nicholas | 37 min |
| Jun 22, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Putnam | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 31 min |
| Jun 22, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 29 min |
| Jun 22, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 9:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 9 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Raleigh | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise, City of Norton | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland | 18 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 3 more | 96 min |
| Jun 22, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell and 22 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell and 24 more | 85 min |
| Jun 22, 5:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt and 38 more | 97 min |
| Jun 22, 12:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta and 59 more | 93 min |
| Jun 22, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Bath, Brunswick, Buckingham and 48 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and 24 more | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 3:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Arlington, Caroline, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 25 more | 94 min |
| Jun 22, 4:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Isle of Wight, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg and 11 more | 89 min |
| Jun 22, 6:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Appomattox, Arlington, Brunswick, Buckingham and 55 more | 119 min |
| Jun 22, 7:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Halifax, Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Wetzel | 96 min |
| Jun 22, 6:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson and 14 more | 85 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.