Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 593
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2008, 1:07 PM EDT for Boone County, Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky; 61 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2008, 1:07 PM EDT (17:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 64 counties
Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Portage County, OH, Preble County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Summit | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan, Union | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Richland | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Summit, Trumbull | 55 min |
| Jun 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Summit and 2 more | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene, Montgomery, Warren | 37 min |
| Jun 22, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Wyandot | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Summit | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Crawford, Holmes, Morrow, Richland, Wayne | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Portage, Trumbull | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit, Wayne | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Trumbull | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie, Hancock, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca and 1 more | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Holmes, Knox, Richland, Wayne | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Knox, Stark, Wayne | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Seneca | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Wood, Wyandot | 55 min |
| Jun 22, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Marion, Morrow | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Lorain | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ottawa | 24 min |
| Jun 22, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Hancock, Marion, Seneca, Wyandot | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 27 min |
| Jun 22, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Richland | 66 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Kenton, Pendleton | 96 min |
| Jun 22, 4:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Floyd, Greenup, Harlan and 14 more | 92 min |
| Jun 22, 11:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Darke, Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Mercer, Paulding and 4 more | 88 min |
| Jun 22, 12:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Carroll, Champaign and 49 more | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 12:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay and 37 more | 89 min |
| Jun 22, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 6 more | 11 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.