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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 564

July 10, 20005 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 10, 2000, 12:30 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2000, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties

Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Washington County, MD, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Greene County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Madison County, VA, Orange County, VA, Page County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Warren County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Berkeley County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wetzel County, WV

Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRitchie18 min
Jul 10, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGilmer23 min
Jul 10, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor31 min
Jul 10, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLewis25 min
Jul 10, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXShenandoah, Warren27 min
Jul 10, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPage, Rappahannock50 min
Jul 10, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier39 min
Jul 10, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier, Stafford51 min
Jul 10, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMadison27 min
Jul 10, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXOrange, Spotsylvania39 min

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 172 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 15 more6 hr
Jul 10, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGallia, Jackson, Lawrence5 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.