Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 393
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT for 7 counties in Kentucky; 20 counties in Ohio; Mason County, Pleasants County, Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Bracken County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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.
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenup | 44 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Kenton, Trimble | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002
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.