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Tornado Watch 29
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 28, 2024, 4:40 AM EST for Lewis County, Kentucky; 27 counties in Ohio; 17 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2024, 4:40 AM EST (09:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2024, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Lewis County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Madison County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:42 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- 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
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 4:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene, Madison | 36 min |
| Feb 28, 5:16 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Franklin, Madison, Pickaway | 29 min |
| Feb 28, 5:35 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Knox | 40 min |
| Feb 28, 5:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason, Robertson | 50 min |
| Feb 28, 5:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Pickaway | 32 min |
| Feb 28, 5:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Licking | 30 min |
| Feb 28, 6:02 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 6:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 23 min |
| Feb 28, 6:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 15 min |
| Feb 28, 6:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble | 31 min |
| Feb 28, 7:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 25 min |
| Feb 28, 7:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia | 46 min |
| Feb 28, 7:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Feb 28, 7:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Roane | 37 min |
| Feb 28, 7:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Roane | 33 min |
| Feb 28, 8:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 34 min |
| Feb 28, 8:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Roane | 36 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 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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, 8:46 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Ballard, Boone, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Caldwell and 35 more | 119 min |
| Feb 27, 10:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Ballard, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Breckinridge and 32 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 28, 3:01 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 28 more | 119 min |
| Feb 28, 3:56 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Boyd, Boyle and 58 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 4:25 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greenup | 65 min |
| Feb 28, 6:08 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark, Elliott and 21 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:15 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Bell, Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Clinton and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 27, 9:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Williams | 6 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.