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Tornado Watch 175
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 3, 2022, 2:29 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2022, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2022, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 117 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Boone County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Adams County, OH, Ashland 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, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga 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, Harrison County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Lorain 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, Sandusky County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Seneca 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, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson 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, Tyler County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin, Pickaway | 41 min |
| May 3, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 24 min |
| May 3, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble | 15 min |
| May 3, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 48 min |
| May 3, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 18 min |
| May 3, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton, Greene, Warren | 45 min |
| May 3, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway | 25 min |
| May 3, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 37 min |
| May 3, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 17 min |
| May 3, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown, Highland | 46 min |
| May 3, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum | 24 min |
| May 3, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Greene, Madison | 52 min |
| May 3, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene, Washington | 34 min |
| May 3, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Tuscarawas | 33 min |
| May 3, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross | 44 min |
| May 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway | 35 min |
| May 3, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 38 min |
| May 3, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross | 46 min |
| May 3, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 63 min |
| May 3, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 33 min |
| May 3, 5:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock | 38 min |
| May 3, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Hocking | 30 min |
| May 3, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 25 min |
| May 3, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene, Washington | 33 min |
| May 3, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Hancock, Seneca, Wyandot | 57 min |
| May 3, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington | 26 min |
| May 3, 5:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Hancock, Sandusky, Seneca | 38 min |
| May 3, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble | 52 min |
| May 3, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland | 22 min |
| May 3, 6:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Seneca | 25 min |
| May 3, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie, Huron, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca | 38 min |
| May 3, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 31 min |
| May 3, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 4 more | 39 min |
| May 3, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 35 min |
| May 3, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky | 37 min |
| May 3, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Cuyahoga, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Medina | 41 min |
| May 3, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Indiana, Westmoreland | 34 min |
| May 3, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Lorain | 19 min |
| May 3, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Jefferson | 30 min |
| May 3, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Summit | 27 min |
| May 3, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 34 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 470 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 3, 1:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clinton and 40 more | 2 hr |
| May 3, 1:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bracken, Campbell, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton | 2 hr |
| May 3, 4:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Coshocton and 25 more | 95 min |
| May 3, 6:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Erie, Hardin, Huron, Marion, Richland and 2 more | 65 min |
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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.