Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 2023
Tornado Watch 62
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 3, 2023, 12:07 PM EST for 16 counties in Indiana; 68 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2023, 12:07 PM EST (17:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2023, 4:34 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 75 kt
All 84 counties
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, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 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
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 12:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Butler, Hancock, Ohio | 20 min |
| Mar 3, 12:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Edmonson, Simpson, Warren | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 12:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh | 65 min |
| Mar 3, 1:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 1:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and 2 more | 51 min |
| Mar 3, 1:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Ohio | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 1:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 1:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 1:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh | 41 min |
| Mar 3, 1:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Warrick | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 1:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Cumberland, Green, Hart, Larue, Metcalfe and 1 more | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 1:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 50 min |
| Mar 3, 1:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 22 min |
| Mar 3, 1:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Perry | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 2:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pike, Spencer | 20 min |
| Mar 3, 2:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 2:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry, Washington | 45 min |
| Mar 3, 2:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Perry | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne | 14 min |
| Mar 3, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Scott, Washington | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Clay, Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee and 4 more | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Nicholas and 1 more | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 3:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble | 22 min |
| Mar 3, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Lee and 4 more | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and 3 more | 42 min |
| Mar 3, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Shelby | 16 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 624 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 822 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 11:15 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Spencer | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Perry, Spencer | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ohio, Switzerland | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:25 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Kosciusko, LaGrange and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 7:24 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:53 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Fleming, Greenup and 4 more | 2 hr |
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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.