Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 250
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 22, 2004, 3:20 PM EST for Jay County, Randolph County, Indiana; Monroe County, Michigan; 42 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2004, 3:20 PM EST (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Jay County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Monroe County, MI, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware 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, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa 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, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 10:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 44 min |
| May 22, 10:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga | 49 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1084 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 1:48 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 4 more | 57 min |
| May 22, 11:03 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cass, Fulton, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte and 7 more | 57 min |
| May 22, 11:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 2:36 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 17 more | 54 min |
| May 22, 5:29 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jay, Randolph | 91 min |
| May 22, 1:09 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Bay, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee and 18 more | 66 min |
| May 22, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 1:25 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 33 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 12:26 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Trumbull | 94 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.