Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 665
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2003, 8:45 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2003, 8:45 AM CDT (13:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Champaign County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, McLean County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Will County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Van Buren County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Williams County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:45 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
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle, Livingston | 25 min |
| Jul 7, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Porter | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 9:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Livingston | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Van Buren | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Marshall, Starke | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 10:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton, Pulaski | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 10:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Miami | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 10:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb, Steuben | 80 min |
| Jul 7, 11:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Williams | 72 min |
| Jul 7, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Paulding | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Lenawee | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 50 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 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 6, 8:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 10 more | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 1:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winnebago | 95 min |
| Jul 7, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jo Daviess | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 83 min |
| Jul 7, 6:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Grundy, Henry, Kendall and 9 more | 97 min |
| Jul 7, 8:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 13 more | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 10:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, DeWitt, Ford, Iroquois, McLean, Piatt and 1 more | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 12:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 42 more | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 2:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Jo Daviess, McHenry, Stephenson, Winnebago | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Rock Island | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Iroquois, Kankakee, Vermilion, Will | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clinton, Dearborn, Decatur and 21 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clinton, Dearborn, Decatur and 21 more | 114 min |
| Jul 7, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fayette, Henry, Jay, Randolph, Rush, Union and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Iron | 66 min |
| Jul 7, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chippewa, Luce, Mackinac, Schoolcraft | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark, Columbiana and 42 more | 94 min |
| Jul 7, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Gallia, Geauga and 15 more | 53 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.