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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 464

June 13, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2004, 11:45 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2004, 11:45 PM EDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2004, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties

Bath County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Licking County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Stark County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Ohio County, WV

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 11:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCoshocton, Tuscarawas3 hr
Jun 14, 12:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZJefferson44 min
Jun 14, 12:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll3 hr
Jun 14, 12:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZColumbiana34 min
Jun 14, 12:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver41 min
Jun 14, 1:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler49 min
Jun 14, 1:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZHarrison56 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 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2004-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2285 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2004-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 130 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.5
Supercell composite
10.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 38 more97 min
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCrittenden, Livingston6 hr
Jun 14, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoyd, Lawrence4 hr
Jun 13, 8:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Butler, Carroll and 62 more90 min
Jun 13, 11:08 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAthens, Belmont, Carroll, Clermont, Clinton, Columbiana and 33 more97 min
Jun 14, 2:40 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBelmont, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble, Washington2 hr
Jun 14, 10:06 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance and 26 more54 min
Jun 14, 10:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Carroll, Columbiana and 41 more7 hr
Jun 14, 11:22 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Carroll, Columbiana and 36 more53 min
Jun 14, 1:29 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Carroll, Columbiana and 41 more91 min
Jun 14, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 25 more6 hr
Jun 14, 3:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCameron, Clarion, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest and 6 more115 min
Jun 14, 4:45 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin and 10 more2 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.