Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 684
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 82 counties
Boyd County, KY, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield 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, Mahoning County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Greene County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell 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, Pocahontas 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), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Huron | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Lorain | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Summit | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Ashland | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wayne | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Richland | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 7:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 7:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 36 min |
| Jul 8, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 60 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Greenup, Lewis | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 1:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle and 61 more | 95 min |
| Jul 8, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Fleming and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 4:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Fleming and 18 more | 88 min |
| Jul 8, 5:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 115 min |
| Jul 8, 6:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Fleming, Gallatin and 13 more | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Carroll, Coshocton, Crawford and 36 more | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 10:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Defiance and 13 more | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 12:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Defiance and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:50 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Defiance and 18 more | 85 min |
| Jul 8, 2:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 44 more | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 3:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:06 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 21 more | 114 min |
| Jul 8, 11:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Darke, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock and 9 more | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 11:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin and 11 more | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry and 9 more | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Fayette, Indiana, Somerset, Westmoreland | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 6 more | 58 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.