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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 372

May 14, 200337 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 14, 2003, 5:45 PM EST for 37 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 2003, 5:45 PM EST (22:45 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2003, 11:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties

Adams County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 5:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain24 min
May 14, 6:07 PM ESTTornado WarningINDFountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe23 min
May 14, 6:30 PM ESTTornado WarningINDMontgomery30 min
May 14, 6:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDWarren43 min
May 14, 6:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe32 min
May 14, 7:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDFountain44 min
May 14, 7:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMontgomery, Tippecanoe61 min
May 14, 7:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDClinton47 min
May 14, 8:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBoone47 min
May 14, 8:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHendricks, Putnam66 min
May 14, 8:35 PM ESTTornado WarningINDBoone40 min
May 14, 8:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMarion65 min
May 14, 9:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHamilton42 min
May 14, 9:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock, Shelby58 min
May 14, 10:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry, Rush57 min
May 14, 10:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Franklin35 min
May 14, 10:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin, Union48 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2003-05-14Temperature 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2003-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 5:07 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain and 14 more113 min

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.