Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 233
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 15, 2001, 7:00 PM EST for 10 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Michigan; 37 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2001, 7:00 PM EST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2001, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Jay County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Noble County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allegan County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Van Buren County, MI, Allen County, OH, Athens County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Ross County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange | 49 min |
| May 15, 7:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 55 min |
| May 15, 7:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 49 min |
| May 15, 7:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 49 min |
| May 15, 7:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Noble | 54 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 11:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Decatur, Franklin, Jefferson, Jennings, Ohio and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Menominee | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Michigan, 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.