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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 674

July 7, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2003, 9:55 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2003, 9:55 PM EDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2003, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 89 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Beaver County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 10:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Summit63 min
Jul 7, 10:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZTuscarawas58 min
Jul 7, 10:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark56 min
Jul 7, 11:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGuernsey42 min
Jul 7, 11:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit49 min
Jul 7, 11:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHarrison55 min
Jul 7, 11:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWashington24 min
Jul 7, 11:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont64 min
Jul 7, 11:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina, Summit49 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2003-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2731 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2003-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 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
2731 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
11.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 12:57 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd, Carter, Greenup63 min
Jul 8, 1:25 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle and 61 more95 min
Jul 8, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Fleming and 17 more6 hr
Jul 8, 3:02 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd28 min
Jul 8, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoyd5 hr
Jul 8, 4:02 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Fleming and 18 more88 min
Jul 8, 5:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd115 min
Jul 8, 6:38 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Fleming, Gallatin and 13 more37 min
Jul 8, 7:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 9 more5 hr
Jul 7, 9:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Ashland, Athens, Carroll, Coshocton, Crawford and 36 more60 min
Jul 7, 10:13 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Defiance and 13 more62 min
Jul 8, 12:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Defiance and 18 more5 hr
Jul 8, 12:50 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Defiance and 18 more85 min
Jul 8, 2:57 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 44 more63 min
Jul 8, 3:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 51 more6 hr
Jul 8, 6:06 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAthens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 21 more114 min
Jul 8, 11:05 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Auglaize, Darke, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock and 9 more25 min
Jul 8, 11:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry and 10 more6 hr
Jul 8, 1:04 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin and 11 more56 min
Jul 8, 3:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry and 9 more30 min
Jul 8, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry and 10 more4 hr
Jul 8, 7:29 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Fayette, Indiana, Somerset, Westmoreland61 min
Jul 7, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBerkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 7 more5 hr
Jul 7, 10:32 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBerkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 6 more58 min

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.