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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 235
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2016, 2:38 PM EDT for 21 counties in Ohio; 5 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2016, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2016, 6:29 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Medina County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Lorain, Sandusky | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Geauga, Medina, Portage, Summit | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula, Trumbull | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 4:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Venango | 46 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 (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 12:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Coshocton and 25 more | 119 min |
| Jun 5, 4:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning | 87 min |
| Jun 5, 1:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Berks, Carbon, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin and 8 more | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Cumberland and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 93 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.