Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 757

September 23, 200139 counties in Indiana; 14 counties in Kentucky; 28 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 23, 2001, 4:45 PM EST for 39 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
Sep 23, 2001, 4:45 PM EST (21:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 23, 2001, 10:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 81 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Noble County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Henry County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 23, 5:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXGrant23 min
Sep 23, 5:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDJohnson, Shelby29 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 2001-09-23Temperature 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 2001-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 23, 3:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCrawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry, Pike, Posey and 3 more5 hr

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.