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Tornado Watch 370

June 21, 2026Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana; 29 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 21, 2026, 9:19 PM EDT for Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana; 29 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2026, 9:19 PM EDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 31 counties

Ohio County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
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: 80%

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
Jun 21, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	28 min
Jun 21, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Trimble	39 min
Jun 21, 10:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	53 min
Jun 21, 10:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	45 min
Jun 21, 10:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Meade	3 hr
Jun 21, 10:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hancock	49 min
Jun 21, 11:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	27 min
Jun 21, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	24 min
Jun 21, 11:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade	31 min
Jun 21, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	26 min
Jun 21, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	32 min
Jun 21, 11:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	47 min
Jun 22, 12:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson, Spencer	46 min
Jun 22, 12:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hancock	38 min
Jun 22, 12:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	24 min
Jun 22, 12:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	25 min
Jun 22, 12:50 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	40 min
Jun 22, 1:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Washington	41 min
Jun 22, 1:38 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade	4 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 8:24 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more	36 min
Jun 21, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ripley, Union	2 hr
Jun 22, 12:21 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Harrison, Perry, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick	114 min
Jun 21, 9:02 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bourbon, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll and 20 more	58 min
Jun 22, 1:25 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Leslie, Letcher and 4 more	2 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.