Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 2003, 11:10 AM CDT for 23 counties in Illinois; 39 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2003, 11:10 AM CDT (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Bureau County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, McLean County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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 9, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 12:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Warren | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Edgar | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 2:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Benton, Jasper, Newton | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vermillion | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 2:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Edgar | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Miami | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 3:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 119 min |
| Jul 9, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vigo | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Owen | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Putnam | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Morgan | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | McLean | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ford, Livingston | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Johnson | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew | 46 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 27 more | 114 min |
| Jul 9, 9:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford and 28 more | 96 min |
| Jul 9, 12:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Effingham and 17 more | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Grundy and 4 more | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edgar, Kankakee | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox, Mercer and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 18 more | 86 min |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox and 12 more | 97 min |
| Jul 8, 8:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 50 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Jennings and 7 more | 88 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.