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Tornado Watch 105
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 11, 2024, 4:06 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2024, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 68 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, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Noble County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan | 31 min |
| Apr 11, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Raleigh | 35 min |
| Apr 11, 5:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Jefferson, Monroe | 8 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha | 33 min |
| Apr 11, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas | 34 min |
| Apr 11, 5:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Columbiana, Jefferson | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan, Mingo | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 10 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Nicholas | 33 min |
| Apr 11, 5:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Greene, Washington | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 5:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Nicholas | 24 min |
| Apr 11, 6:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Raleigh and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 8:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Apr 11, 8:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 8:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Meigs, Morgan, Washington | 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 1:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott and 26 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene | 2 hr |
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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.