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Tornado Watch 335

June 8, 202214 counties in Ohio; Fayette County, Greene County, Washington County, Pennsylvania; 26 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 8, 2022, 7:25 PM EDT for 14 counties in Ohio; Fayette County, Greene County, Washington County, Pennsylvania; 26 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2022, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2022, 12:07 AM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 43 counties

Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence 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, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer 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, Randolph 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 Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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: 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Athens, Vinton	35 min
Jun 8, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monroe	33 min
Jun 8, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble	26 min
Jun 8, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane	38 min
Jun 8, 7:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble	12 min
Jun 8, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene, Washington	27 min
Jun 8, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe, Noble, Tuscarawas	24 min
Jun 8, 7:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Athens, Vinton	23 min
Jun 8, 7:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Greene	7 min
Jun 8, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton	52 min
Jun 8, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Greene	36 min
Jun 8, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Noble	33 min
Jun 8, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane	45 min
Jun 8, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Vinton	42 min
Jun 8, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe	37 min
Jun 8, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	32 min
Jun 8, 8:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia	17 min
Jun 8, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia, Preston	31 min
Jun 8, 8:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Belmont	21 min
Jun 8, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Monroe	24 min
Jun 8, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette	38 min
Jun 8, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont	35 min
Jun 8, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion, Monongalia, Preston	35 min
Jun 8, 9:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Monroe	29 min
Jun 8, 9:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monongalia, Preston	30 min
Jun 8, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Fayette, Greene	29 min
Jun 8, 10:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Taylor	25 min
Jun 8, 10:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas, Roane	4 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 1:38 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette and 15 more	2 hr
Jun 8, 2:29 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Athens, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 32 more	8 hr
Jun 8, 4:23 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 16 more	2 hr
Jun 8, 6:26 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 32 more	2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 2022 Tornado Watches in Ohio, 2022 Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2022 Every tornado watch in 2022

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.