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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 440

June 13, 200038 counties in Indiana; 6 counties in Michigan; 22 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2000, 12:30 PM EST for 38 counties in Indiana; 6 counties in Michigan; 22 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2000, 12:30 PM EST (17:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 6:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 66 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 1:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton47 min
Jun 13, 1:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen45 min
Jun 13, 2:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Huntington48 min
Jun 13, 3:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams51 min
Jun 13, 3:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMercer39 min

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.