Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 679
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 25, 2005, 2:10 PM EDT for 16 counties in Ohio; 9 counties in Pennsylvania; 6 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2005, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2005, 7:12 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Medina County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Preston County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 38 min |
| Jul 25, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wayne | 46 min |
| Jul 25, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 55 min |
| Jul 25, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Stark | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Harrison | 56 min |
| Jul 25, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe, Noble | 77 min |
| Jul 25, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 75 min |
| Jul 25, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 70 min |
| Jul 25, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 80 min |
| Jul 25, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 71 min |
| Jul 25, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 68 min |
| Jul 25, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 58 min |
| Jul 25, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia | 80 min |
| Jul 25, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 82 min |
| Jul 25, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 35 min |
| Jul 25, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 40 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 2202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 11:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Geauga, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 92 min |
| Jul 24, 11:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 4 hr |
| Jul 25, 9:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance and 29 more | 97 min |
| Jul 25, 10:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Defiance, Erie and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 25, 12:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 35 more | 93 min |
| Jul 25, 2:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Erie, Hardin, Huron and 6 more | 67 min |
| Jul 25, 3:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Champaign, Clark, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin and 7 more | 92 min |
| Jul 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lawrence | 66 min |
| Jul 25, 5:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Somerset | 57 min |
| Jul 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 6:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Westmoreland | 24 min |
| Jul 25, 7:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Fulton | 56 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.