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Tornado Watch 188
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 14, 2006, 7:58 PM EDT for 8 counties in Indiana; 12 counties in Kentucky; 19 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2006, 7:58 PM EDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2006, 1:47 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene, Montgomery | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 24 min |
| Apr 14, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ripley | 55 min |
| Apr 14, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Montgomery, Warren | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Ripley | 52 min |
| Apr 14, 11:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ripley | 113 min |
| Apr 14, 11:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 11:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ohio | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 12:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Kenton | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 12:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 12:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 29 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1272 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 608 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 13, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 43 more | 59 min |
| Apr 14, 12:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:58 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Jackson and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:14 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 3 more | 91 min |
| Apr 14, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Clay, Fountain, Greene, Jasper, Montgomery and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 47 more | 85 min |
| Apr 14, 2:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 32 more | 89 min |
| Apr 14, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 41 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Fountain, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Parke and 8 more | 87 min |
| Apr 14, 5:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 51 more | 66 min |
| Apr 14, 6:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 7:09 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 7:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Delaware and 25 more | 93 min |
| Apr 14, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia and 14 more | 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.