Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 680
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2003, 10:25 AM EST for 25 counties in Indiana; 20 counties in Michigan; 16 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2003, 10:25 AM EST (15:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2003, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Cass County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte 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, Wabash 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, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Van Buren County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Allen County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:28 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 12:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | LaGrange, Noble | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 12:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Washtenaw | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 1:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | DeKalb | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 1:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | Monroe, Wayne | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 1:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Williams | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 2:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Defiance, Henry | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 2:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lucas, Wood | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami, Wabash | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 2:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Wyandot | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 2:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Sandusky | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Seneca | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 3:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CLE | Seneca | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Hancock | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 3:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 3:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Hancock, Seneca, Wyandot | 3 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:13 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 30 more | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 10:18 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter, White | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 11:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:50 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 36 more | 85 min |
| Jul 8, 10:05 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 43 more | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 12:04 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 19 more | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 12:25 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 42 more | 95 min |
| Jul 8, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 54 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 17 more | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 3:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 54 more | 88 min |
| Jul 8, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:38 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 67 more | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 50 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:57 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Monroe | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Monroe | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Carroll, Coshocton, Crawford and 36 more | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 8:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 50 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:57 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 44 more | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 5:06 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 21 more | 114 min |
| Jul 8, 2:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 36 more | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 2:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:05 PM EST | 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.