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Tornado Watch 3
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 6, 2025, 5:13 AM CST for 57 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2025, 5:13 AM CST (11:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2025, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 57 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe 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, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:16 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- 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
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 5:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart | 28 min |
| Feb 6, 5:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Hart | 25 min |
| Feb 6, 5:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln, Marion, Taylor | 36 min |
| Feb 6, 5:46 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Feb 6, 5:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell | 28 min |
| Feb 6, 5:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln, Marion | 24 min |
| Feb 6, 5:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Metcalfe | 34 min |
| Feb 6, 6:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 25 min |
| Feb 6, 6:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 24 min |
| Feb 6, 6:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan | 27 min |
| Feb 6, 6:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Rockcastle | 30 min |
| Feb 6, 6:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Johnson | 12 min |
| Feb 6, 6:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Rockcastle | 37 min |
| Feb 6, 7:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 31 min |
| Feb 6, 7:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry | 26 min |
| Feb 6, 7:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 23 min |
| Feb 6, 7:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Knott, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 41 min |
| Feb 6, 7:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Rockcastle | 26 min |
| Feb 6, 8:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 41 min |
| Feb 6, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Pike | 52 min |
| Feb 6, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Laurel | 24 min |
| Feb 6, 8:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel | 3 hr |
| Feb 6, 8:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie, Perry | 30 min |
| Feb 6, 8:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 26 min |
| Feb 6, 8:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry, Pike | 2 hr |
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 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 12:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Butler, Calloway and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:19 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 61 more | 86 min |
| Feb 6, 7:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Barren, Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Clinton and 24 more | 93 min |
| Feb 6, 8:52 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher and 3 more | 83 min |
| Feb 6, 1:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCreary and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Harlan and 13 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.