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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 669

August 9, 20004 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 9, 2000, 3:15 PM EST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 9, 2000, 3:15 PM EST (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2000, 9:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 87 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Washington County, OH, Jackson County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 3:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNShelby29 min
Aug 9, 3:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry25 min
Aug 9, 3:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWayne51 min
Aug 9, 3:37 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPBZMuskingum3 hr
Aug 9, 4:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark37 min
Aug 9, 4:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWayne64 min
Aug 9, 4:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNUnion29 min
Aug 9, 4:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRush36 min
Aug 9, 4:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette43 min
Aug 9, 4:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield41 min
Aug 9, 4:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler39 min
Aug 9, 4:42 PM ESTTornado WarningILNButler, Preble48 min
Aug 9, 4:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Hamilton58 min
Aug 9, 4:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin53 min
Aug 9, 4:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHocking, Pickaway49 min
Aug 9, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRush15 min
Aug 9, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Highland45 min
Aug 9, 5:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren41 min
Aug 9, 5:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown52 min
Aug 9, 5:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens, Vinton37 min
Aug 9, 5:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery33 min
Aug 9, 5:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn45 min
Aug 9, 5:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette24 min
Aug 9, 5:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Hamilton52 min
Aug 9, 5:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin47 min
Aug 9, 5:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXVinton44 min
Aug 9, 5:50 PM ESTTornado WarningILNBrown25 min
Aug 9, 5:51 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNBrown84 min
Aug 9, 6:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Kenton44 min
Aug 9, 6:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs42 min
Aug 9, 6:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Ripley41 min
Aug 9, 6:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHocking52 min
Aug 9, 6:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Jackson, Lawrence41 min
Aug 9, 6:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDecatur38 min
Aug 9, 6:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone37 min
Aug 9, 6:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Hamilton63 min
Aug 9, 6:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley50 min
Aug 9, 6:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown61 min
Aug 9, 6:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPickaway32 min
Aug 9, 6:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew38 min
Aug 9, 6:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Kenton52 min
Aug 9, 6:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDecatur35 min
Aug 9, 6:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn64 min
Aug 9, 6:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Mason, Putnam34 min
Aug 9, 6:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone62 min
Aug 9, 7:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHocking44 min
Aug 9, 7:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOhio, Switzerland57 min
Aug 9, 7:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley52 min
Aug 9, 8:28 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningILNRipley, Switzerland62 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2404 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2000-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 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
2404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
8.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 5:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Fountain, Jasper, Montgomery, Newton, Parke and 4 more5 hr
Aug 9, 7:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBlackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Delaware and 18 more5 hr
Aug 9, 6:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCOhio, Switzerland6 hr
Aug 9, 9:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGreenup6 hr
Aug 9, 4:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshtabula, Geauga6 hr
Aug 9, 12:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarbour, Berkeley, Braxton, Brooke, Doddridge, Gilmer and 22 more6 hr
Aug 9, 1:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Fayette, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Monroe, Nicholas and 4 more5 hr
Aug 9, 4:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCJefferson5 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.