Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 302
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2013, 11:53 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2013, 11:53 PM EDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2013, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Particularly dangerous situation
- Yes
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 110 counties
Greenup County, KY, Garrett County, MD, Adams County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Portage County, OH, Preble County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 95%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 90%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Knox | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Hardin, Logan, Union | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Taylor | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 12:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Randolph | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan, Mercer and 3 more | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 12:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Knox | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Delaware, Franklin, Hardin, Logan, Madison and 1 more | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 1:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Taylor | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 1:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Delaware, Union | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 1:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 1:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Morrow, Richland | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 1:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Knox | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 1:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 1:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe and 3 more | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 1:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Holmes, Wayne | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 2:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 2:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Geauga, Lake, Portage, Stark, Summit | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 2:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Ohio | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 2:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Mahoning, Trumbull | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 2:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry, Washington | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 3:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler, Lawrence, Mercer | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 3:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 3:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Mercer, Venango | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 4:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Westmoreland | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 4:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 4:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington, Westmoreland | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 4:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland | 77 min |
| Jun 13, 5:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 5:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Roane, Wirt | 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greenup | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:32 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon and 82 more | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 9:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon and 81 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:59 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Bell, Bourbon and 65 more | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 11:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Garrett | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 2:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:10 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 13 more | 95 min |
| Jun 13, 11:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Dorchester, Montgomery and 7 more | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Harford and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Howard, Kent, Montgomery, Prince George's, City of Baltimore | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 4:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Dorchester, Kent and 7 more | 53 min |
| Jun 12, 8:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Crawford, Delaware and 15 more | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 9:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 39 more | 88 min |
| Jun 13, 12:50 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Crawford and 32 more | 85 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.