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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 473

June 14, 20046 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2004, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 113 counties

Boyd County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Allegany County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Washington County, MD, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Adams County, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Greene County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Union County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, York County, PA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Warren County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Berkeley County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker 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 Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Jefferson	64 min
Jun 14, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Beaver	59 min
Jun 14, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Snyder	58 min
Jun 14, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Harford	42 min
Jun 14, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Northumberland	56 min
Jun 14, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Brooke	51 min
Jun 14, 7:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Harford	41 min
Jun 14, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	54 min
Jun 14, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Muskingum	32 min
Jun 14, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	59 min
Jun 14, 8:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia	56 min
Jun 14, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	54 min
Jun 14, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Ohio	25 min
Jun 14, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	57 min
Jun 14, 8:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Guernsey	3 hr
Jun 14, 8:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	55 min
Jun 14, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny	63 min
Jun 14, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana	53 min
Jun 14, 8:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Adams	4 hr
Jun 14, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	34 min
Jun 14, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Noble	45 min
Jun 14, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	60 min
Jun 14, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton	56 min
Jun 14, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cambria, Somerset	50 min
Jun 14, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	46 min
Jun 14, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	72 min
Jun 14, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair, Huntingdon	63 min
Jun 14, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Fulton	52 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 38 more	97 min
Jun 13, 11:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bath, Fleming, Greenup, Lewis, Mason, Montgomery and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crittenden, Livingston	6 hr
Jun 14, 4:45 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Howard and 4 more	2 hr
Jun 13, 8:30 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Butler, Carroll and 62 more	90 min
Jun 13, 11:08 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Clermont, Clinton, Columbiana and 33 more	97 min
Jun 14, 2:40 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Belmont, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble, Washington	2 hr
Jun 14, 10:06 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance and 26 more	54 min
Jun 14, 10:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Carroll, Columbiana and 41 more	7 hr
Jun 14, 11:22 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Carroll, Columbiana and 36 more	53 min
Jun 14, 1:29 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Carroll, Columbiana and 41 more	91 min
Jun 14, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 25 more	6 hr
Jun 14, 3:20 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cameron, Clarion, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest and 6 more	115 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2004 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004

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.