Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 891
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 26, 2003, 9:10 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2003, 9:10 AM EDT (13:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 66 counties
Monroe County, MI, Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lake County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Portage County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Erie County, PA, Forest County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Potter County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Venango County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 9:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 9:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 10:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 11:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 11:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 11:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 11:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Venango | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 11:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 12:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 12:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Butler | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana | 62 min |
| Aug 26, 1:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 3 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 11:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gogebic | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 12:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Monroe, Wayne | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 2:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clare, Gladwin, Isabella, Lake, Mecosta, Midland and 3 more | 85 min |
| Aug 26, 3:49 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton and 12 more | 116 min |
| Aug 26, 5:41 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antrim, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet, Montmorency, Oscoda and 1 more | 94 min |
| Aug 26, 6:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alpena, Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 7:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alpena, Crawford, Montmorency, Oscoda, Presque Isle | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berrien, Branch, Cass, Saint Joseph | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:30 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Steuben, Wyoming | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 11:08 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Butler, Carroll, Champaign and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Monroe, Noble | 116 min |
| Aug 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign and 37 more | 119 min |
| Aug 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 6:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 35 more | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 7:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Delaware and 21 more | 65 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.