Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 198
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 1, 2003, 12:50 PM EST for 49 counties in Indiana; 62 counties in Ohio; Brooke County, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2003, 12:50 PM EST (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 113 counties
Adams County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Butler County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Portage County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Brooke County, WV, Ohio County, WV
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 44 min |
| May 1, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Martin | 51 min |
| May 1, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 43 min |
| May 1, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 43 min |
| May 1, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 67 min |
| May 1, 3:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 56 min |
| May 1, 3:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 53 min |
| May 1, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 34 min |
| May 1, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland | 60 min |
| May 1, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 1, 3:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 20 min |
| May 1, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 40 min |
| May 1, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 52 min |
| May 1, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 60 min |
| May 1, 4:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry | 42 min |
| May 1, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Madison | 29 min |
| May 1, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 48 min |
| May 1, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Shelby | 24 min |
| May 1, 5:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 40 min |
| May 1, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion | 53 min |
| May 1, 5:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Delaware | 19 min |
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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:31 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington, Jasper and 15 more | 119 min |
| Apr 30, 10:31 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington, Jasper and 15 more | 89 min |
| Apr 30, 10:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 5 hr |
| May 1, 1:19 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton | 86 min |
| May 1, 7:51 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson and 22 more | 114 min |
| May 1, 12:09 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 26 more | 3 hr |
| May 1, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison, Perry and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 3:10 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay and 35 more | 95 min |
| Apr 30, 8:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance and 25 more | 87 min |
| May 1, 11:41 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbiana, Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull | 3 hr |
| May 1, 2:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Highland, Jackson, Pike and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 5:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Jackson and 4 more | 94 min |
| May 1, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton and 24 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 6:10 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Jackson and 4 more | 95 min |
| May 1, 10:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 113 min |
| May 1, 5:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 5 more | 3 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.