Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 385
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2002, 9:00 PM EST for 35 counties in Indiana; 12 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2002, 9:00 PM EST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Adams County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Darke County, OH, Logan County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 9:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 9:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Marion | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1660 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1420 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 12:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Fairfield, Fayette, Gallia and 14 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 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.