Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 419
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT for 11 counties in Ohio; 14 counties in Pennsylvania; 29 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis 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, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 32 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 1:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison and 11 more | 88 min |
| May 23, 4:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson and 5 more | 94 min |
| May 23, 6:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning and 4 more | 115 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
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.