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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 556
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 31, 2013, 10:09 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2013, 10:09 PM EDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2013, 3:49 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 103 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Athens County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie 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, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Portage County, OH, Preble County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby 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, Wyandot County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne | 39 min |
| Oct 31, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley | 48 min |
| Oct 31, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Shelby | 47 min |
| Oct 31, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Darke, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby | 57 min |
| Oct 31, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ohio, Switzerland | 62 min |
| Oct 31, 11:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Logan, Miami, Shelby | 32 min |
| Oct 31, 11:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Hardin, Logan and 4 more | 55 min |
| Oct 31, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Madison and 1 more | 61 min |
| Oct 31, 11:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Champaign, Logan, Miami, Shelby | 37 min |
| Oct 31, 11:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Hardin | 30 min |
| Oct 31, 11:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 41 min |
| Nov 1, 12:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Seneca, Wyandot | 58 min |
| Nov 1, 12:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette and 5 more | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Highland, Pickaway, Pike and 1 more | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 12:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Knox, Richland | 65 min |
| Nov 1, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason | 49 min |
| Nov 1, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 40 min |
| Nov 1, 12:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 35 min |
| Nov 1, 12:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking, Ross | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 1:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hocking | 29 min |
| Nov 1, 1:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 58 min |
| Nov 1, 1:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 53 min |
| Nov 1, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 62 min |
| Nov 1, 1:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 61 min |
| Nov 1, 1:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Holmes, Lake, Lorain, Medina and 2 more | 54 min |
| Nov 1, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas | 46 min |
| Nov 1, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan | 56 min |
| Nov 1, 1:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd | 58 min |
| Nov 1, 2:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more | 52 min |
| Nov 1, 2:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 60 min |
| Nov 1, 2:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Meigs, Morgan, Washington | 65 min |
| Nov 1, 2:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe | 43 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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 716 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 846 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 31, 8:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 31, 9:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blackford, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 31, 11:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Scott, Switzerland | 64 min |
| Oct 31, 8:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Christian and 13 more | 66 min |
| Oct 31, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 1, 12:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Greenup, Harrison and 7 more | 96 min |
| Nov 1, 12:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 1, 3:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Letcher, Martin and 1 more | 83 min |
| Nov 1, 4:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 26 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 1, 5:41 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Carbon, Chester and 33 more | 94 min |
| Nov 1, 6:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 1, 8:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia | 86 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.