Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 759
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 18, 2003, 1:55 PM EDT for 23 counties in Ohio; 8 counties in Pennsylvania; 6 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2003, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 65 min |
| Jul 18, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 59 min |
| Jul 18, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 54 min |
| Jul 18, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 57 min |
| Jul 18, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 66 min |
| Jul 18, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 66 min |
| Jul 18, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 80 min |
| Jul 18, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 56 min |
| Jul 18, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 66 min |
| Jul 18, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 70 min |
| Jul 18, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 81 min |
| Jul 18, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 73 min |
| Jul 18, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 53 min |
| Jul 18, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Noble | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 81 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 1:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Delaware and 26 more | 115 min |
| Jul 18, 4:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Fairfield, Guernsey and 12 more | 116 min |
| Jul 18, 6:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Delaware, Fairfield and 16 more | 88 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.