Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 796
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 9, 2000, 1:00 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 9, 2000, 1:00 PM CST (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 85 counties
Lawrence County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette 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, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Carroll County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 1:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 43 min |
| Nov 9, 1:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 23 min |
| Nov 9, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Trimble | 45 min |
| Nov 9, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley, Switzerland | 60 min |
| Nov 9, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 60 min |
| Nov 9, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio | 63 min |
| Nov 9, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 66 min |
| Nov 9, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Warren | 55 min |
| Nov 9, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 58 min |
| Nov 9, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 60 min |
| Nov 9, 4:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 53 min |
| Nov 9, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Miami | 62 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
589 WWUS9 KMKC 091842 SEL6 SEL6 MKC WW 091837 INZ000-OHZ000-100000- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 796 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 137 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANA WESTERN OHIO EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 200 PM UNTIL 700 PM EST. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 45 MILES SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON INDIANA TO 25 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF TOLEDO OHIO. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION... CONTINUE...WW 794...WW 795... DISCUSSION...INTENSE SQUALL LINE HAS DEVELOPED AHEAD OF DEEPENING SURFACE LOW NOW MOVING INTO WRN IN. SQUALL LINE WILL RACE NEWD INTO VERY MOIST/UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS SRN AND ERN IN INTO WRN OH. AS LOW CONTINUES TO DEEPEN NEWD ENHANCED SHEAR PROFILES WILL INCREASE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SUPERCELLS/TORNADOES. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH...EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23045. ...HALES 382,0880 414,0854 414,0824 382,0851
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison, Perry and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup, Harlan and 7 more | 3 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.