Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 676
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2003, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties
Cook County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Lake County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke, White | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaPorte, Pulaski, Starke, White | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Tippecanoe | 44 min |
| Jul 7, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass, Fulton, Marshall, Saint Joseph | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Tippecanoe | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Carroll, Clinton, Howard, Tippecanoe | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton, Montgomery | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Grant, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Whitley | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Madison | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Steuben, Wells | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 1:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Madison | 23 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Madison | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Adams, Jay | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mercer | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 1:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Randolph | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Wayne | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Allen, Fulton, Henry, Putnam | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 1:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Randolph | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Shelby | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Preble | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock, Lucas, Wood | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hardin | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Logan | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Greene | 54 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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 3170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Henry and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 20 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 21 more | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Iroquois, Vermilion | 85 min |
| Jul 8, 8:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer and 2 more | 115 min |
| Jul 8, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Effingham and 4 more | 95 min |
| Jul 8, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 28 more | 91 min |
| Jul 8, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 25 more | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign and 48 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 41 more | 95 min |
| Jul 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 30 more | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 10:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 43 more | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 19 more | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 54 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 17 more | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 54 more | 88 min |
| Jul 8, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 67 more | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 50 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Monroe | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Monroe | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Carroll, Coshocton, Crawford and 36 more | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 50 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 44 more | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 5:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 21 more | 114 min |
| Jul 8, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 36 more | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 34 more | 115 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.