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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 407

June 12, 20014 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2001, 3:30 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2001, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties

Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Baltimore County, MD, Caroline County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Washington County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Adams County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Berks County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Centre County, PA, Chester County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Elk County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Perry County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Snyder County, PA, York County, PA

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPFranklin69 min
Jun 12, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPJuniata, Perry69 min
Jun 12, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPHuntingdon25 min
Jun 12, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCentre76 min
Jun 12, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPMifflin33 min
Jun 12, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPHuntingdon, Mifflin47 min
Jun 12, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXWashington30 min
Jun 12, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPAdams58 min
Jun 12, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPJuniata62 min
Jun 12, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPNorthumberland, Snyder66 min
Jun 12, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPPerry62 min
Jun 12, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCumberland61 min
Jun 12, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPAdams60 min
Jun 12, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks60 min
Jun 12, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCarroll40 min
Jun 12, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXBaltimore41 min
Jun 12, 8:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPYork26 min

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2001-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2001-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Indiana and 3 more4 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.