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Tornado Watch 269
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 28, 2019, 12:08 AM EDT for 11 counties in Ohio; 8 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2019, 12:08 AM EDT (04:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2019, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Calhoun County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 12:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum, Noble | 38 min |
| May 28, 12:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 51 min |
| May 28, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 23 min |
| May 28, 1:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 49 min |
| May 28, 1:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 3 hr |
| May 28, 1:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 36 min |
| May 28, 1:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Athens, Meigs, Vinton | 48 min |
| May 28, 1:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry, Washington | 45 min |
| May 28, 2:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Crawford, Darke and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 9:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Delaware and 15 more | 97 min |
| May 27, 11:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Coshocton, Delaware and 26 more | 88 min |
| May 28, 2:03 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Guernsey, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan and 5 more | 117 min |
| May 28, 12:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Carroll, Champaign, Columbiana and 48 more | 119 min |
| May 28, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Champaign, Crawford and 38 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 1:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 8 hr |
| May 28, 3:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Carroll, Champaign and 41 more | 2 hr |
| May 28, 7:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Columbiana, Crawford, Cuyahoga and 31 more | 92 min |
| May 28, 1:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Morgan | 118 min |
| May 28, 4:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooke, Hancock | 2 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.