Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 648
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2003, 4:55 PM EST for 41 counties in Indiana; 6 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2003, 4:55 PM EST (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Darke County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Johnson, Madison, Shelby | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 6:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Rush | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 6:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Wayne | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Union | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Preble | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 7:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler | 52 min |
| Jul 5, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 8:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 8:21 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hendricks, Putnam | 114 min |
| Jul 5, 8:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Greene, Montgomery | 33 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb and 23 more | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 10:09 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:31 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake, Newton, Porter | 89 min |
| Jul 5, 3:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lake | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:43 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Kosciusko and 13 more | 92 min |
| Jul 5, 6:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Elkhart, LaGrange, LaPorte, Porter, Saint Joseph, Steuben | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:12 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 10 more | 93 min |
| Jul 5, 12:55 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Clay, Daviess and 21 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain and 13 more | 56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.