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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 40

April 9, 20154 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 9, 2015, 2:26 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 9, 2015, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 2015, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 103 counties

Dearborn County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Madison County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 72 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
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

43 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken24 min
Apr 9, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton, Fayette, Highland, Pickaway, Ross34 min
Apr 9, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison, Scott32 min
Apr 9, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGrant, Owen, Pendleton26 min
Apr 9, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens, Morgan, Washington39 min
Apr 9, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs50 min
Apr 9, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Pickaway, Ross32 min
Apr 9, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens, Morgan, Perry38 min
Apr 9, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry30 min
Apr 9, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Pike, Ross, Scioto33 min
Apr 9, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum56 min
Apr 9, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCalhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Ritchie, Wirt49 min
Apr 9, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWashington63 min
Apr 9, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLicking20 min
Apr 9, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZCoshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble, Tuscarawas49 min
Apr 9, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie66 min
Apr 9, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion, Marshall, Wetzel37 min
Apr 9, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs64 min
Apr 9, 4:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZGuernsey, Muskingum3 hr
Apr 9, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson and 3 more42 min
Apr 9, 4:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll, Guernsey, Harrison, Tuscarawas4 hr
Apr 9, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens, Meigs, Washington49 min
Apr 9, 5:08 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXAthens, Washington37 min
Apr 9, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion, Monongalia, Wetzel28 min
Apr 9, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont, Jefferson31 min
Apr 9, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBelmont, Monroe37 min
Apr 9, 5:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXWashington32 min
Apr 9, 5:55 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXPleasants, Ritchie, Wood20 min
Apr 9, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarshall34 min
Apr 9, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Franklin, Ohio33 min
Apr 9, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCalhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie61 min
Apr 9, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour, Taylor15 min
Apr 9, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis and 2 more64 min
Apr 9, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Harrison, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler31 min
Apr 9, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell39 min
Apr 9, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Montgomery, Preble, Warren37 min
Apr 9, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign, Clark, Greene, Miami, Montgomery22 min
Apr 9, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor51 min
Apr 9, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour, Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis, Randolph, Upshur66 min
Apr 9, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Lawrence44 min
Apr 9, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs23 min
Apr 9, 8:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll, Guernsey, Harrison, Tuscarawas3 hr
Apr 9, 8:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZCarroll, Guernsey, Harrison, Tuscarawas3 hr

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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2015-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 175 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2015-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 1:51 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDearborn54 min
Apr 9, 2:48 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBenton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter9 hr
Apr 9, 4:01 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland59 min
Apr 9, 4:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLake, Newton93 min
Apr 9, 4:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Dearborn, Floyd, Franklin, Jefferson, Jennings and 5 more56 min
Apr 9, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 31 more6 hr
Apr 9, 4:45 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBallard60 min
Apr 9, 7:11 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFulton64 min
Apr 9, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBelmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 5 more6 hr
Apr 9, 5:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshland, Crawford, Erie, Hancock, Holmes, Huron and 14 more114 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015

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.