Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 755
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 28, 2006, 8:12 PM EDT for 9 counties in Indiana; 29 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2006, 8:12 PM EDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2006, 12:04 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Adams County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jay County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Ross County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 8:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Jay | 52 min |
| Aug 28, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fayette, Wayne | 60 min |
| Aug 28, 8:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Henry | 28 min |
| Aug 28, 9:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Paulding, Putnam | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 9:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Mercer | 27 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 10:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette and 11 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2006Tornado Watches in Indiana, 2006Every tornado watch in 2006
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.