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Tornado Watch 146
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 2006, 10:40 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2006, 10:40 AM EDT (14:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2006, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 87 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Ashtabula County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lake 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, Pike County, OH, Portage County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Erie County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, McKean 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, 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, Upshur County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:42 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison, Jefferson | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 1:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Jefferson | 51 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 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 2, 8:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler and 36 more | 84 min |
| Apr 2, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon and 62 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Christian, Logan, Simpson, Todd and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken and 41 more | 93 min |
| Apr 2, 11:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Greenup, Johnson, Lawrence and 5 more | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 12:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Floyd, Greenup, Harlan, Johnson and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:24 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 37 more | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 2:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Belmont, Columbiana, Jefferson, Mahoning, Monroe, Trumbull | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral, Morgan | 7 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.