Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 688
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2003, 6:40 PM EST for 56 counties in Indiana; 15 counties in Kentucky; 30 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2003, 6:40 PM EST (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 101 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Henry County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Adams County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 26 min |
| Jul 8, 6:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 7:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 7:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 7:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Boone | 18 min |
| Jul 8, 7:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 7:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Delaware, Hamilton, Madison | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hamilton, Marion | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 7:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Marion | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 7:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Madison | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 8:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Rush | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 8:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 8:45 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mercer | 4 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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, 10:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 19 more | 6 hr |
| 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 7, 8:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Greenup, Lewis | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:57 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 2:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:05 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 8:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Carroll, Coshocton, Crawford and 36 more | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 1:57 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 44 more | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:06 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 21 more | 114 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.