Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 166
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 7, 2006, 5:43 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2006, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2006, 12:59 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 104 counties
Garrett County, MD, Ashland County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Medina County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Wayne 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, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Medina, Summit | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 67 min |
| Apr 7, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 35 min |
| Apr 7, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 33 min |
| Apr 7, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Portage | 32 min |
| Apr 7, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier, Summers | 44 min |
| Apr 7, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton | 32 min |
| Apr 7, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bath, Rockbridge, City of Lexington | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 28 min |
| Apr 7, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, Montgomery, Pulaski, Roanoke and 6 more | 52 min |
| Apr 7, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Campbell, Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista and 2 more | 57 min |
| Apr 7, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, City of Galax | 43 min |
| Apr 7, 10:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 56 min |
| Apr 7, 11:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll, City of Galax | 38 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 4:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garrett | 93 min |
| Apr 7, 1:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Darke and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Ashland, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont and 64 more | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 3:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 35 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 7, 6:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Buckingham and 26 more | 97 min |
| Apr 7, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bedford and 37 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.