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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 564

June 30, 200523 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Ohio; 24 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 30, 2005, 3:20 PM EDT for 23 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Ohio; 24 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2005, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2005, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties

Bath County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRowan14 min
Jun 30, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLElliott46 min
Jun 30, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd26 min
Jun 30, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion, Wetzel53 min
Jun 30, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis62 min
Jun 30, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWirt16 min
Jun 30, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRowan34 min
Jun 30, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis45 min
Jun 30, 4:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNLewis3 hr
Jun 30, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXNicholas32 min
Jun 30, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMenifee, Powell39 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1111 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 3:09 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJefferson, Oldham, Trimble96 min
Jun 30, 3:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBallard, Henderson, McCracken, Union62 min
Jun 30, 4:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBath, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 26 more88 min
Jun 30, 7:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBath, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Breathitt, Campbell and 31 more85 min
Jun 30, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Campbell, Gallatin, Kenton, Pendleton7 hr
Jun 30, 8:27 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDefiance, Fulton, Henry, Williams2 hr
Jun 30, 9:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDefiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa and 7 more5 hr
Jun 30, 11:33 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas and 8 more117 min
Jun 30, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 34 more5 hr
Jun 30, 2:27 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 27 more2 hr
Jun 30, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDefiance, Paulding, Van Wert, Williams6 hr
Jun 30, 7:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Darke and 18 more89 min

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.