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Tornado Watch 870
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 15, 2005, 6:06 PM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky; 7 counties in Michigan; 45 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2005, 6:06 PM EST (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2005, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Adams County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Athens County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 6:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | DTX | Lenawee, Monroe | 39 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 9:56 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 14, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell and 30 more | 113 min |
| Nov 15, 8:42 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 15, 11:13 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 12:55 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 1:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 17 more | 116 min |
| Nov 15, 2:32 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Ballard, Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 53 more | 88 min |
| Nov 15, 3:01 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 53 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 15, 6:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Bullitt and 30 more | 92 min |
| Nov 15, 4:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Branch, Hillsdale, Lenawee, Monroe, Washtenaw, Wayne | 95 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.