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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 413
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 2014, 1:17 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2014, 1:17 PM EDT (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 125 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, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll 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, 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, Darke 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, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Miami 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, Brooke County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson 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, 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 Cincinnati radar (KILN), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Licking | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jul 13, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Washington | 67 min |
| Jul 13, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross | 16 min |
| Jul 13, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Highland, Pike | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Jefferson | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 4:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Jefferson | 23 min |
| Jul 13, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Wetzel | 24 min |
| Jul 13, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Greene, Madison, Pickaway | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 5:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland | 116 min |
| Jul 13, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway | 51 min |
| Jul 13, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 28 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 10:51 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 11:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte, Marshall and 5 more | 118 min |
| Jul 13, 12:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Union | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 1:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd and 22 more | 94 min |
| Jul 13, 6:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Clark, Dearborn, Decatur, Floyd, Franklin and 8 more | 87 min |
| Jul 13, 3:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Cameron and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Cameron and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Carbon and 30 more | 86 min |
| Jul 13, 7:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Columbia, Cumberland and 20 more | 84 min |
| Jul 13, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and 4 more | 4 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.