Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 897
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 26, 2003, 9:20 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2003, 9:20 PM EDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2003, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Belmont County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Frederick County, VA, Greene County, VA, Madison County, VA, Page County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Warren County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Preston County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 46 min |
| Aug 26, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 10:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 10:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 10:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 23 min |
| Aug 26, 11:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 11:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hardy | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 41 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 10:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Garrett | 57 min |
| Aug 27, 12:22 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Charles | 53 min |
| Aug 27, 6:11 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Garrett, Washington | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 9:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 9:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harford | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 10:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 8 more | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 3:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Frederick and 7 more | 66 min |
| Aug 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 10 more | 87 min |
| Aug 27, 6:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 15 more | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:15 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton and 24 more | 90 min |
| Aug 27, 2:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Carroll, Crawford, Defiance, Erie and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton and 17 more | 93 min |
| Aug 27, 9:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 21 more | 118 min |
| Aug 27, 12:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more | 113 min |
| Aug 27, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 27, 11:48 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allegheny, Beaver, Bedford, Cambria, Columbia and 18 more | 87 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.