Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 285
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT for 28 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Pennsylvania; 35 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties
Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor 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), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 26 min |
| May 25, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 23 min |
| May 25, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 33 min |
| May 25, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 26 min |
| May 25, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 32 min |
| May 25, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 25 min |
| May 25, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Westmoreland | 41 min |
| May 25, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia | 57 min |
| May 25, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 63 min |
| May 25, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 31 min |
| May 25, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 33 min |
| May 25, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Westmoreland | 59 min |
| May 25, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 34 min |
| May 25, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 63 min |
| May 25, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 58 min |
| May 25, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Venango | 53 min |
| May 25, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 23 min |
| May 25, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Venango | 65 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 14 more | 3 hr |
| May 25, 5:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 14 more | 97 min |
| May 25, 12:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 42 more | 96 min |
| May 25, 3:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 21 more | 63 min |
| May 25, 5:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland and 8 more | 58 min |
| May 25, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Scioto | 6 hr |
| May 25, 2:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton and 4 more | 92 min |
| May 25, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Cambria and 15 more | 2 hr |
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.