Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches in 2010
Tornado Watch 726
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 26, 2010, 1:36 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 26, 2010, 1:36 PM EDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2010, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 134 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Ashtabula County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Erie County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Venango County, PA, Warren County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Buchanan County, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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
- 90%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
34 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 48 min |
| Oct 26, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina, Summit | 74 min |
| Oct 26, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 62 min |
| Oct 26, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenup | 49 min |
| Oct 26, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 31 min |
| Oct 26, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas | 75 min |
| Oct 26, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake | 69 min |
| Oct 26, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 32 min |
| Oct 26, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 30 min |
| Oct 26, 2:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas | 44 min |
| Oct 26, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 36 min |
| Oct 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 23 min |
| Oct 26, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Morgan, Perry and 2 more | 48 min |
| Oct 26, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 32 min |
| Oct 26, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Rockcastle | 34 min |
| Oct 26, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel | 31 min |
| Oct 26, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 74 min |
| Oct 26, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Morgan | 27 min |
| Oct 26, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Greenup | 25 min |
| Oct 26, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson and 2 more | 64 min |
| Oct 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 29 min |
| Oct 26, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Lawrence | 43 min |
| Oct 26, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Knott, Owsley, Perry | 31 min |
| Oct 26, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Meigs | 43 min |
| Oct 26, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 30 min |
| Oct 26, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane | 30 min |
| Oct 26, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 56 min |
| Oct 26, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin | 52 min |
| Oct 26, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Leslie, Perry | 33 min |
| Oct 26, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 16 min |
| Oct 26, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 27 min |
| Oct 26, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Jefferson | 50 min |
| Oct 26, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 32 min |
| Oct 26, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln and 2 more | 47 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 4:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 26, 5:05 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 26, 7:00 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bath and 84 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 26, 8:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone and 74 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 26, 1:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup and 10 more | 66 min |
| Oct 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup and 10 more | 90 min |
| Oct 26, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington, Wise, City of Bristol and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 26, 6:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath and 49 more | 54 min |
| Oct 26, 7:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta and 65 more | 12 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.