Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 236
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 16, 2001, 3:15 PM CDT for 18 counties in Illinois; 39 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2001, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Livingston County, IL, McLean County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Richland County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Washington County, IN, White County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke | 26 min |
| May 16, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke | 24 min |
| May 16, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 38 min |
| May 16, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton | 34 min |
| May 16, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 33 min |
| May 16, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 44 min |
| May 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke | 35 min |
| May 16, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Vigo | 42 min |
| May 16, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke | 34 min |
| May 16, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe | 32 min |
| May 16, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 22 min |
| May 16, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard | 52 min |
| May 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 45 min |
| May 16, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 28 min |
| May 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vigo | 37 min |
| May 16, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion | 20 min |
| May 16, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 43 min |
| May 16, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Vigo | 32 min |
| May 16, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan, Vigo | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1321 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Jay, LaGrange and 4 more | 4 hr |
| May 16, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Decatur, Franklin, Jefferson, Jennings, Ohio and 5 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 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.