Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches in 2023
Tornado Watch 381
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 25, 2023, 4:18 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2023, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2023, 8:31 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 70 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Adams County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 69 min |
| Jun 25, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Livingston, Washtenaw | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Ottawa, Wood | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Wayne | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wood | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wood | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Owen | 42 min |
| Jun 25, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 18 min |
| Jun 25, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Union | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 23 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 12:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 54 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry and 3 more | 83 min |
| Jun 25, 3:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, Union | 89 min |
| Jun 25, 3:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Daviess and 27 more | 87 min |
| Jun 25, 5:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison and 12 more | 118 min |
| Jun 25, 11:30 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton, Graves and 7 more | 90 min |
| Jun 25, 1:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alcona, Allegan, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Barry and 40 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bay, Genesee, Huron, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arenac, Bay, Clare, Clinton, Crawford, Eaton and 25 more | 87 min |
| Jun 25, 7:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Huron, Lorain and 8 more | 97 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.