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Tornado Watch 54
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 16, 2025, 12:50 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2025, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 7:52 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 46 counties
Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Washington County, MD, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Elk County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Perry County, PA, Potter County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Union County, PA, Warren County, PA, Augusta County, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Highland County, VA, Page County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Warren County, VA, Berkeley County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Pendleton County, WV
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Garrett | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Cambria, Somerset | 61 min |
| Mar 16, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield, Elk, McKean, Warren | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany, Garrett | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Elk and 1 more | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cameron, Elk, McKean | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 2:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Clearfield, Elk | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, McKean and 1 more | 78 min |
| Mar 16, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 78 min |
| Mar 16, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 2:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | McKean, Potter | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | McKean, Potter | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Highland | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Tioga | 57 min |
| Mar 16, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant, Hardy, Pendleton | 15 min |
| Mar 16, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Perry | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Rockingham, Shenandoah | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany, Washington | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany, Washington | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Rockingham, Shenandoah | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 16 min |
| Mar 16, 6:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 11 min |
| Mar 16, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Shenandoah, City of Winchester | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Washington | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 7:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick, Shenandoah | 81 min |
| Mar 16, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Frederick, Shenandoah, Warren, City of Winchester | 24 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 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 590 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 790 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 16, 10:04 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garrett | 86 min |
| Mar 16, 12:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Garrett | 97 min |
| Mar 16, 4:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Charles, Frederick, Harford and 5 more | 94 min |
| Mar 16, 6:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Charles | 118 min |
| Mar 16, 10:31 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Cameron and 28 more | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 6:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 115 min |
| Mar 16, 9:49 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and 30 more | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 1:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Isle of Wight, Southampton, City of Chesapeake, City of Franklin, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth and 2 more | 92 min |
| Mar 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte and 13 more | 95 min |
| Mar 16, 7:38 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amelia, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham, Campbell, Charles City and 27 more | 5 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.