Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 379
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT for 5 counties in Illinois; 31 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Will County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, Lake County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Grundy, Livingston | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Miami | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Huntington | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Wabash | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Wells | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | Huntington | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tippecanoe, Warren | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 27 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
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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.