Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 731
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 12, 2003, 12:40 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2003, 12:40 PM EDT (16:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 103 counties
Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 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
34 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 45 min |
| Jul 12, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Owsley | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 28 min |
| Jul 12, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Washington | 37 min |
| Jul 12, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Perry | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 33 min |
| Jul 12, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 57 min |
| Jul 12, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 38 min |
| Jul 12, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens | 12 min |
| Jul 12, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 62 min |
| Jul 12, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Washington | 43 min |
| Jul 12, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike | 22 min |
| Jul 12, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 60 min |
| Jul 12, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 24 min |
| Jul 12, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 74 min |
| Jul 12, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Tyler | 50 min |
| Jul 12, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 55 min |
| Jul 12, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 30 min |
| Jul 12, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Vinton | 28 min |
| Jul 12, 4:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs | 44 min |
| Jul 12, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 43 min |
| Jul 12, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs | 42 min |
| Jul 12, 4:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 34 min |
| Jul 12, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Perry | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Marion | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 15 min |
| Jul 12, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 66 min |
| Jul 12, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenup | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 30 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 10:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 89 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 11:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle and 39 more | 114 min |
| Jul 12, 3:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Bell, Boyd and 48 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Caldwell, Christian, Clinton and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 12, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Carter and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 12, 6:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 7:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clinton, Cumberland, Knox, McCreary, Wayne and 1 more | 63 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.