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Tornado Watch 327
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2024, 11:06 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2024, 11:06 PM EDT (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2024, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 80 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Scott County, VA, Wise County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade, Nelson, Oldham and 2 more | 51 min |
| May 27, 12:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 46 min |
| May 27, 12:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer | 47 min |
| May 27, 12:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton | 23 min |
| May 27, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne, Whitley | 55 min |
| May 27, 1:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary and 5 more | 64 min |
| May 27, 1:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan | 33 min |
| May 27, 1:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Jackson, Lee and 7 more | 35 min |
| May 27, 2:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 54 min |
| May 27, 2:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 20 min |
| May 27, 2:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 20 min |
| May 27, 2:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knott, Knox, Leslie and 3 more | 47 min |
| May 27, 3:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 37 min |
| May 27, 3:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee, Scott | 27 min |
| May 27, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee, Scott | 49 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin and 7 more | 84 min |
| May 26, 9:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Spencer | 84 min |
| May 26, 9:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ohio, Switzerland | 61 min |
| May 26, 10:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Lawrence and 6 more | 54 min |
| May 27, 12:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle and 52 more | 93 min |
| May 27, 3:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Letcher, Martin and 1 more | 55 min |
| May 26, 10:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 36 more | 96 min |
| May 26, 10:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 70 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 11:39 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:52 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Chester, Coffee, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more | 113 min |
| May 27, 3:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Franklin, Grainger and 21 more | 118 min |
| May 26, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Amelia, Arlington, Caroline, Chesterfield, Clarke, Culpeper and 26 more | 3 hr |
| May 26, 10:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arlington, Charles City, Essex, Fairfax, Henrico, King and Queen and 10 more | 87 min |
| May 27, 11:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Accomack, Arlington, Caroline, Clarke, Culpeper, Essex and 26 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 2:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brunswick, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Isle of Wight, Lunenburg and 17 more | 83 min |
| May 27, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Arlington, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City and 65 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 4:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amelia, Arlington, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 55 more | 86 min |
| May 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Fairfax, City of Falls Church | 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.