Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 701
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 2003, 3:35 PM EST for 27 counties in Indiana; 19 counties in Kentucky; 34 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2003, 3:35 PM EST (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties
Adams County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Madison County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Boone County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Adams County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 4:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Owen | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 5:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jennings | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 5:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Jennings | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 5:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 52 min |
| Jul 9, 6:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 6:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 6:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 7:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 7:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 7:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Greenup | 2 hr |
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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 50 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Daviess and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:21 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 23 more | 114 min |
| Jul 9, 9:54 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay and 31 more | 96 min |
| Jul 9, 11:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 34 more | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 3:12 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 47 more | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 5:04 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Fountain, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo, Warren | 86 min |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Vermillion | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Jennings and 7 more | 88 min |
| Jul 9, 11:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Estill and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:12 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Gallia, Guernsey, Lawrence, Meigs and 5 more | 93 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.