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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 686

August 22, 200137 counties in Indiana; 6 counties in Michigan; 17 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 22, 2001, 4:00 PM EST for 37 counties in Indiana; 6 counties in Michigan; 17 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 2001, 4:00 PM EST (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2001, 10:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Noble County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize 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, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 4:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen59 min
Aug 22, 4:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXElkhart, LaGrange36 min
Aug 22, 5:15 PM ESTTornado WarningIWXAllen55 min
Aug 22, 5:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXPaulding44 min
Aug 22, 5:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXVan Wert45 min
Aug 22, 6:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMarshall29 min
Aug 22, 6:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXKosciusko, Noble, Whitley27 min
Aug 22, 6:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAllen, Whitley60 min
Aug 22, 7:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXFulton, Kosciusko44 min
Aug 22, 7:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXPulaski44 min
Aug 22, 7:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXAdams38 min
Aug 22, 7:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXMiami, Wabash51 min
Aug 22, 7:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXCass53 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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 2001-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1387 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 2:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 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.