Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Watches in 2024
Tornado Watch 48
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 2024, 8:57 PM EDT for 11 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2024, 8:57 PM EDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2024, 12:18 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
Counties Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison, Tuscarawas | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 11:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan, Perry | 33 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 1623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 549 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield and 10 more | 67 min |
| Mar 14, 10:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Clermont, Highland, Pike, Scioto | 4 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Gallia, Highland and 10 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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.