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Tornado Watch 64
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 3, 2023, 3:19 PM EST for 32 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Ohio; Buchanan County, Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2023, 3:19 PM EST (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 42 counties
Boone County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Knott County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Buchanan County, VA, Dickenson County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 3:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Owen | 47 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, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 43 min |
| Mar 3, 4:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen, Pendleton | 39 min |
| Mar 3, 4:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 4:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan, Rowan and 1 more | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 4:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Kenton | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 4:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Campbell, Kenton, Pendleton | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 4:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 4:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Lawrence | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Lawrence | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 4:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Vinton | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Campbell, Mason, Pendleton | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 5:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown, Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Ross | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 5:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Brown, Clinton, Highland | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 5:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette, Highland, Ross | 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 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, 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, 11:15 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 55 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 62 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Campbell and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:53 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Fleming, Greenup and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:25 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fulton, Lucas, Williams | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Bristol and 1 more | 5 hr |
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.