Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 230
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 15, 2001, 2:00 PM EST for 35 counties in Indiana; 14 counties in Kentucky; 28 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2001, 2:00 PM EST (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2001, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 77 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Madison County, IN, Miami County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 100 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
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Van Wert | 63 min |
| May 15, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 51 min |
| May 15, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 42 min |
| May 15, 5:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 63 min |
| May 15, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 67 min |
| May 15, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 45 min |
| May 15, 6:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Shelby | 41 min |
| May 15, 6:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark | 45 min |
| May 15, 6:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 441 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001
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.