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Tornado Watch 48
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 27, 2023, 4:07 PM EST for 15 counties in Ohio; 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2023, 4:07 PM EST (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
Counties Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Coshocton 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, Jackson County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 5:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Meigs | 27 min |
| Feb 27, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 30 min |
| Feb 27, 6:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Washington | 26 min |
| Feb 27, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Washington | 17 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 12:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 13 more | 91 min |
| Feb 27, 1:28 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:13 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Greene, Montgomery, Preble, Warren | 62 min |
| Feb 27, 3:27 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Coshocton, Delaware and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 27, 6:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Monroe, Noble, Washington | 116 min |
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.