Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 663
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2003, 11:10 PM EST for 27 counties in Indiana; Boone County, Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky; 9 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2003, 11:10 PM EST (04:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2003, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Darke County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 11:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 11:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 11:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Henry | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 11:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 12:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 12:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 12:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry, Madison | 65 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 00:00Z, 4.2 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
- 1162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:46 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 32 more | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 11:51 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clinton, Dearborn, Decatur and 21 more | 114 min |
| Jul 7, 8:30 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 39 more | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 8:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Carroll, Cass and 29 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:14 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 45 more | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 11:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fayette, Henry, Jay, Randolph, Rush, Union and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:14 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 42 more | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 4:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 44 more | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:56 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark, Columbiana and 42 more | 94 min |
| Jul 7, 2:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:52 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Gallia, Geauga and 15 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
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.