Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 270
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2005, 3:40 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2005, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2005, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 86 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Genesee County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Shiawassee County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Adams County, OH, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Highland County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Ripley, Union | 52 min |
| May 13, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Wood | 35 min |
| May 13, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas | 18 min |
| May 13, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 59 min |
| May 13, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Montgomery, Warren | 43 min |
| May 13, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 49 min |
| May 13, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 46 min |
| May 13, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 69 min |
| May 13, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 77 min |
| May 13, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan, Shelby | 43 min |
| May 13, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Putnam | 58 min |
| May 13, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan | 41 min |
| May 13, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 40 min |
| May 13, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland | 38 min |
| May 13, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry | 32 min |
| May 13, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Delaware, Union | 50 min |
| May 13, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Licking | 46 min |
| May 13, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood | 49 min |
| May 13, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette | 43 min |
| May 13, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Wyandot | 42 min |
| May 13, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 80 min |
| May 13, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Morrow | 54 min |
| May 13, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 30 min |
| May 13, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Knox | 39 min |
| May 13, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware | 31 min |
| May 13, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca | 51 min |
| May 13, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 49 min |
| May 13, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Pickaway, Ross | 47 min |
| May 13, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Richland | 32 min |
| May 13, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Huron | 28 min |
| May 13, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 33 min |
| May 13, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 28 min |
| May 13, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 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 13, 1:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper and 17 more | 85 min |
| May 13, 1:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd and 21 more | 2 hr |
| May 13, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 68 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 3:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Franklin, Union, Wayne | 62 min |
| May 13, 5:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 86 more | 88 min |
| May 13, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 23 more | 6 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.