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Tornado Watch 42
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 11, 2026, 10:35 AM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky; 44 counties in Ohio; 29 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2026, 10:35 AM EDT (14:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2026, 6:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 77 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:36 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 10:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Sandusky, Seneca, Wood | 44 min |
| Mar 11, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie, Huron, Ottawa, Richland | 56 min |
| Mar 11, 11:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashland, Erie, Lorain, Medina | 53 min |
| Mar 11, 11:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cuyahoga, Medina, Summit, Wayne | 48 min |
| Mar 11, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lorain | 30 min |
| Mar 11, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Ashtabula | 76 min |
| Mar 11, 1:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Harrison, Jefferson | 18 min |
| Mar 11, 1:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe, Noble | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 34 min |
| Mar 11, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 44 min |
| Mar 11, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 18 min |
| Mar 11, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble | 25 min |
| Mar 11, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe | 15 min |
| Mar 11, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan | 9 min |
| Mar 11, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe, Noble | 21 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 6:22 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 8:49 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Daviess, Gallatin and 12 more | 86 min |
| Mar 11, 11:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:59 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 11, 2:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Franklin, Gallatin and 13 more | 84 min |
| Mar 11, 3:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Monroe | 113 min |
| Mar 11, 5:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Knox, McCreary, Whitley | 119 min |
| Mar 11, 1:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Williams, Wood | 64 min |
| Mar 11, 5:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Crawford, Darke and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:10 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford and 26 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Hocking and 9 more | 85 min |
| Mar 11, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Marion and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Jefferson, Mineral, Monongalia, Morgan and 1 more | 86 min |
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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.