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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 805

October 24, 20014 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 24, 2001, 10:45 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 24, 2001, 10:45 PM EDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Oct 25, 2001, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 79 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Warren County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 11:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd, Carter, Lawrence25 min
Oct 24, 11:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit25 min
Oct 24, 11:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Johnson46 min
Oct 24, 11:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey, Tuscarawas57 min
Oct 24, 11:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs17 min
Oct 24, 11:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEGeauga, Portage46 min
Oct 24, 11:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark46 min
Oct 24, 11:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWood23 min
Oct 24, 11:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshtabula, Mahoning, Trumbull48 min
Oct 25, 12:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone26 min
Oct 25, 12:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Erie59 min
Oct 25, 12:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall47 min
Oct 25, 12:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette19 min

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 00:00Z on 2001-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 99 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 00:00Z on 2001-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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
Oct 24, 10:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 20 more4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

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.