Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 450
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2008, 3:26 PM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky; Gallia County, Lawrence County, Ohio; 23 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2008, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2008, 7:42 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Roane County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis and 6 more | 76 min |
| Jun 4, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Greenup | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Meigs | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Greenup | 48 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell | 86 min |
| Jun 4, 2:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Crittenden, Livingston, McCracken, Union | 91 min |
| Jun 4, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:09 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll and 28 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken and 50 more | 95 min |
| Jun 4, 2:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken and 40 more | 96 min |
| Jun 4, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette and 16 more | 88 min |
| Jun 4, 7:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Butler, Clark, Clermont and 23 more | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 12:18 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Buckingham and 53 more | 87 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta and 60 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Augusta, Bath, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 40 more | 97 min |
| Jun 4, 11:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier and 25 more | 84 min |
| Jun 4, 12:49 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Bath and 50 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arlington, Caroline, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, King George and 14 more | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 4:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Caroline and 38 more | 116 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2008Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2008Tornado Watches in Ohio, 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.