Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 638
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 4, 2003, 5:50 PM EST for 35 counties in Indiana; Boone County, Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky; 19 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2003, 5:50 PM EST (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2003, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 7:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 7:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 7:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Wayne | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Jul 4, 7:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 7:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 7:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 7:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Union | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 7:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 7:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Warren | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 8:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clinton | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 8:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 8:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 8:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Highland | 44 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 718 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Elkhart, LaGrange, LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Steuben | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:28 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 12:04 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 7 more | 116 min |
| Jul 4, 12:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Grant, Jasper and 15 more | 117 min |
| Jul 4, 1:45 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Whitley | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 2:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:29 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 28 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:07 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 37 more | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 6:29 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 45 more | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 9:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Defiance and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 47 more | 6 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.