Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 415

June 6, 20055 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 6, 2005, 1:00 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2005, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 70 counties

Boyd County, KY, Martin County, KY, Garrett County, MD, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana 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, Lawrence County, OH, Mahoning 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, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Warren 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, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Westmoreland	56 min
Jun 6, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marshall	48 min
Jun 6, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Roane	34 min
Jun 6, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	59 min
Jun 6, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monongalia	53 min
Jun 6, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong	61 min
Jun 6, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler	31 min
Jun 6, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Indiana, Westmoreland	59 min
Jun 6, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	66 min
Jun 6, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion	56 min
Jun 6, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	54 min
Jun 6, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion	59 min
Jun 6, 2:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Westmoreland	3 hr
Jun 6, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	64 min
Jun 6, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion	19 min
Jun 6, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour	42 min
Jun 6, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	66 min
Jun 6, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	53 min
Jun 6, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	55 min
Jun 6, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	61 min
Jun 6, 6:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Washington	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Washington	62 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 863 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 12:46 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Greenup, Johnson, Lawrence	59 min
Jun 6, 2:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 48 more	2 hr
Jun 6, 5:32 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Floyd, Lawrence, Martin	88 min
Jun 6, 1:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Frederick and 5 more	56 min
Jun 6, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 12 more	8 hr
Jun 6, 5:00 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick and 9 more	90 min
Jun 6, 6:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Harford, Howard, Kent and 2 more	86 min
Jun 5, 10:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga, Fairfield and 18 more	92 min
Jun 6, 8:35 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Blair, Butler, Cambria and 19 more	115 min
Jun 6, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Cameron, Carbon and 28 more	9 hr
Jun 6, 10:28 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks, Carbon and 33 more	62 min
Jun 6, 12:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bradford, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Montour, Sullivan and 3 more	6 hr
Jun 6, 4:35 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery, Philadelphia and 1 more	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005

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.