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Tornado Watch 436
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 2008, 3:33 PM EDT for 10 counties in Kentucky; 13 counties in Ohio; Cabell County, Mason County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2008, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2008, 6:03 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Bath County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Highland County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Cabell County, WV, Mason County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 29 min |
| Jun 3, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis | 32 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:44 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd and 63 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell and 30 more | 117 min |
| Jun 3, 11:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Darke, Mercer, Preble | 85 min |
| Jun 3, 7:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Clark, Clinton, Darke, Fayette, Gallia and 16 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2008Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2008Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2008Every tornado watch in 2008
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.