Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 211
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 22, 2013, 2:27 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2013, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2013, 9:29 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 118 counties
Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Whitley 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, 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, 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, Potter County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Tioga 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), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon | 35 min |
| May 22, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Washington | 48 min |
| May 22, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon | 43 min |
| May 22, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 55 min |
| May 22, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming and 2 more | 57 min |
| May 22, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Potter and 3 more | 65 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1178 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup, Johnson and 4 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 11:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lackawanna, Monroe, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming | 119 min |
| May 22, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming | 10 hr |
| May 22, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne | 7 hr |
| May 22, 3:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Centre, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin and 11 more | 67 min |
| May 22, 4:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lackawanna, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming | 92 min |
| May 22, 6:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Centre, Clinton, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin and 8 more | 85 min |
| May 22, 7:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna and 3 more | 94 min |
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.