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Tornado Watch 67

March 23, 20224 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 23, 2022, 2:35 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 2022, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2022, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 69 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Pike County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Ashland County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Stark County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Boone County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Jackson, Perry, Vinton	37 min
Mar 23, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Perry, Pike	45 min
Mar 23, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	18 min
Mar 23, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Morgan and 1 more	42 min
Mar 23, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Martin, Pike	51 min
Mar 23, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	17 min
Mar 23, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Logan, Mingo	44 min
Mar 23, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	48 min
Mar 23, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, Raleigh	38 min
Mar 23, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe, Noble	38 min
Mar 23, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Washington	39 min
Mar 23, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Boone, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha and 2 more	52 min
Mar 23, 4:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson	17 min
Mar 23, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Roane	23 min
Mar 23, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton	34 min
Mar 23, 5:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry	35 min
Mar 23, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Knox, Morrow, Richland	46 min
Mar 23, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan, Perry, Vinton, Washington	47 min
Mar 23, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	43 min
Mar 23, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Morgan, Washington	52 min
Mar 23, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble	36 min
Mar 23, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Washington	24 min
Mar 23, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Carroll, Columbiana, Tuscarawas	33 min
Mar 23, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam and 4 more	44 min
Mar 23, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha, Roane	30 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 (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 1376 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 407 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 480 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 12:40 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Carroll, Trimble	2 hr
Mar 23, 1:52 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Carter, Clark, Clay and 23 more	83 min
Mar 23, 2:15 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Martin, Pike	90 min
Mar 23, 4:14 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Campbell	2 hr
Mar 23, 4:35 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Martin, Pike	115 min
Mar 23, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 48 more	6 hr
Mar 23, 6:58 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia and 14 more	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.