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Tornado Watch 395

May 25, 2006Dearborn County, Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana; 28 counties in Kentucky; 42 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2006, 3:43 PM EDT for Dearborn County, Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana; 28 counties in Kentucky; 42 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2006, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 73 counties

Dearborn County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Licking County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH, Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
40%
Ten or more severe wind reports
60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
40%
Ten or more severe hail reports
70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

68 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford67 min
May 25, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie, Huron78 min
May 25, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland81 min
May 25, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELorain73 min
May 25, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford84 min
May 25, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler51 min
May 25, 5:56 PM EDTTornado WarningCLERichland49 min
May 25, 6:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLERichland3 hr
May 25, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland73 min
May 25, 6:07 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMarion53 min
May 25, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery30 min
May 25, 6:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshland40 min
May 25, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren50 min
May 25, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow63 min
May 25, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler47 min
May 25, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland58 min
May 25, 6:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCLEAshland3 hr
May 25, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina91 min
May 25, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene46 min
May 25, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark45 min
May 25, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne85 min
May 25, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign, Logan54 min
May 25, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Hamilton38 min
May 25, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton, Greene50 min
May 25, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone, Campbell, Kenton28 min
May 25, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene, Montgomery42 min
May 25, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson24 min
May 25, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland39 min
May 25, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMadison, Union26 min
May 25, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt52 min
May 25, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox67 min
May 25, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOwen36 min
May 25, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren11 min
May 25, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLESummit54 min
May 25, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKShelby, Spencer51 min
May 25, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton27 min
May 25, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WarningILNGreene27 min
May 25, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMarion55 min
May 25, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes53 min
May 25, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage66 min
May 25, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMorrow79 min
May 25, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson33 min
May 25, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont32 min
May 25, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin28 min
May 25, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEKnox68 min
May 25, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMercer, Woodford46 min
May 25, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEAshland58 min
May 25, 8:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Robertson11 min
May 25, 8:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLERichland56 min
May 25, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette19 min
May 25, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown50 min
May 25, 8:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette, Jessamine, Scott48 min
May 25, 8:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEWayne63 min
May 25, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Mason, Robertson30 min
May 25, 8:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMedina67 min
May 25, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin, Licking34 min
May 25, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams29 min
May 25, 8:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Madison42 min
May 25, 8:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEHolmes72 min
May 25, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis38 min
May 25, 8:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPike48 min
May 25, 9:07 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEWayne53 min
May 25, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery16 min
May 25, 9:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark, Summit39 min
May 25, 9:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone21 min
May 25, 9:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPortage42 min
May 25, 9:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton11 min
May 25, 9:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEStark31 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2006-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2006-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 257 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 9:59 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 12 more91 min
May 25, 1:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 50 more2 hr
May 25, 2:34 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 78 more7 hr
May 25, 3:50 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford and 42 more85 min
May 25, 5:44 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison, Perry and 5 more91 min
May 25, 3:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBath, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Elliott and 8 more54 min
May 25, 4:51 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBallard, McCracken54 min
May 25, 6:16 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 53 more8 hr
May 25, 7:04 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Geauga and 11 more86 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.