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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 604

July 14, 199720 counties in Illinois; 48 counties in Indiana; Williams County, Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 1997, 1:15 PM CDT for 20 counties in Illinois; 48 counties in Indiana; Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1997, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 69 counties

Bond County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Williams County, OH

Warnings issued inside it

18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChristian, Shelby35 min
Jul 14, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFord, Iroquois68 min
Jul 14, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChampaign, Piatt37 min
Jul 14, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChristian, Shelby51 min
Jul 14, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXChampaign44 min
Jul 14, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXDouglas43 min
Jul 14, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXVermilion50 min
Jul 14, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXColes, Moultrie47 min
Jul 14, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond, Fayette42 min
Jul 14, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXShelby54 min
Jul 14, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTLaPorte, Saint Joseph69 min
Jul 14, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEffingham30 min
Jul 14, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTElkhart59 min
Jul 14, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXEffingham32 min
Jul 14, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILXClay, Jasper43 min
Jul 14, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFulton, Kosciusko56 min
Jul 14, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXNoble, Steuben55 min
Jul 14, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXLaGrange, Noble50 min

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1997-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3436 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1997-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3436 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 10 more6 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.