Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 329
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2002, 1:45 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2002, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 84 counties
Clark County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 48 min |
| May 25, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding | 31 min |
| May 25, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 28 min |
| May 25, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Lawrence | 55 min |
| May 25, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Tipton | 25 min |
| May 25, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison | 41 min |
| May 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wells | 28 min |
| May 25, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 53 min |
| May 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Morgan, Putnam | 30 min |
| May 25, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 36 min |
| May 25, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Henry | 63 min |
| May 25, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 24 min |
| May 25, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 57 min |
| May 25, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Wood | 32 min |
| May 25, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 25 min |
| May 25, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Jackson | 22 min |
| May 25, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Shelby | 50 min |
| May 25, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Wayne | 39 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Floyd, Franklin, Harrison and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Champaign, Clark, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Delaware and 32 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Michigan, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2002
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.